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Greta Thunberg 

• 15 years old

• In August 2018, she started spending her school days outside the Swedish parliament to call for stronger action on climate change by holding up a sign reading Skolstrejk förklimatet (School strike for climate). 

• Soon, other students engaged in similar protests in their own communities. 

Together, they organised a school climate strike movement under the name Fridays for Future.

WHY is Laudato Si’ addressed to “every person living in this planet”

• ALL of us are affected – there is already a CLIMATE EMERGENCY

• Because we are the ones responsible or accountable to the present and future children/generation

• And we “are capable of rising above ourselves”

What is the root cause of our ecological crisis

Human Roots of the Ecological Crisis

1. Modern/Tyrannical Anthropocentrism

1. Technocratic-paradigm 

Which is the opposite of synthesis or integration, the greatest example of reductionism

• REDUCTIONISM 

when knowledge is not integrated; or when in focusing only to a particular field of knowledge one does not see/fails to see (or intentionally turn a blind eye) the connection with other

Anthropocentric environmental worldview

• sees man as the most important creature or species and therefore all forms of development that will supply his needs and wants are deemed justifiable.

Laudato Si’ directly rejects the “anthropocentric view”

FALSE

What is being rejected by Laudato Si’?

• Extreme/Absolute Anthropocentric view; Anthropocentrism: Tyrannical/Excessive/Distorted/Modern/Misguided 

It is the opposite of synthesis or integration, the greatest example of reductionism. 

• Technocratic Paradigm

• "God Has Remembered"

• Zechariah from the Hebrew name means Zekharyah —.

• Creation

• —is the very first epiphany of God, God’s first and primordial revelation 

Created realities

— are ultimately symbols of God

• vestigia Dei

• As symbols of God, created realities are — – signs and traces of God’s presence in creation

Authentic development

• The development we speak of here cannot be restricted to economic growth alone. 

• To be authentic, it must be well rounded; it must foster the development of each man and of the whole man

Christian humanism

The greatest service to development is a

inhuman humanism.

A humanism which excludes God is an

Social love

— is the key to authentic development:

social approach

A true ecological approach always becomes a —

• A Statement of Concern on the Mining Act of 1995, 

• highlighting the ill effects of mining operations both on the environment and on the people, particularly indigenous communities.

• Water is Life 2000

• calling for a concerted effort to address the problem of water insecurity and the urgency to protect our remaining watersheds.

Upholding the Sanctity of Life

• reaffirming our rejection of irresponsible mining and illegal logging operations but also to crucially include the challenges of global warming and climate change among “the new threats to our environment”

• Pastoral Statement on the Recent Earthquake and Typhoon that Devastated the Central Region of the Philippines 2013

• to express our solidarity with the victims of calamities and to preempt their future recurrence.