Table of Contents
Laudato si', mi' Signore 1
Nothing in This World Is Indifferent to Us 1
United by the Same Concern 3
St. Francis of Assisi 4
My Appeal 6
Chapter 1 What Is Happening To Our Common Home 9
I Pollution and Climate Change 10
Pollution, Waste and the Throwaway Culture 10
Climate as a Common Good 11
II The Issue of Water 14
III Loss of Biodiversity 16
IV Decline in the Quality of Human Life and the Breakdown of Society 20
V Global Inequality 22
VI Weak Responses 25
VII A Variety of Opinions 28
Chapter 2 The Gospel Of Creation 30
I The Light Offered by Faith 30
II The Wisdom of the Biblical Accounts 31
III The Mystery of the Universe 37
IV The Message of Each Creature in the Harmony of Creation 41
V A Universal Communion 43
VI The Common Destination of Goods 45
VII The Gaze of Jesus 47
Chapter 3 The Human Roots of the Ecological Crisis 49
I Technology: Creativity and Power 49
II The Globalization of the Technocratic Paradigm 51
III The Crisis and Effects of Modern Anthropocentrism 56
Practical Relativism 59
The Need to Protect Employment 60
New Biological Technologies 63
Chapter 4 Integral Ecology 67
I Environment, Economic and Social Ecology 67
II Cultural Ecology 70
III Ecology of Daily Life 72
IV The Principle of the Common Good 76
V Justice Between the Generations 77
Chapter 5 Lines Of Approach and Action 80
I Dialogue on the Environment in the International Community 80
II Dialogue for New National and Local Policies 86
III Dialogue and Transparency in Decision-Making 89
IV Politics and Economy in Dialogue for Human Fulfillment 91
V Religions in Dialogue with Science 96
Chapter 6 Econological Education and Spirituality 99
I Toward a New Lifestyle 99
II Educating for the Covenant Between Humanity and the Environment 101
III Ecological Conversion 105
IV Joy and Peace 108
V Civic and Political Love 110
VI Sacramental Signs and the Celebration of Rest 112
VII The Trinity and the Relationship Between Creatures 115
VIII Queen of All Creation 116
IX Beyond the Sun 117
A Prayer for Our Earth 118
A Christian Prayer in Union with Creation 119
Notes 121
