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Today, however, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.
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We have only one heart, and the same wretchedness which leads us to mistreat an animal will not be long in showing itself in our relationships with other people. Every act of cruelty towards any creature is contrary to human dignity.
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We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family.
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We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental.
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We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it. We have had enough of immorality and the mockery of ethics, goodness, faith and honesty. It is time to acknowledge that light-hearted superficiality has done us no good. When the foundations of social life are corroded, what ensues are battles over conflicting interests, new forms of violence and brutality, and obstacles to the growth of a genuine culture of care for the environment.
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We have only one heart, and the same wretchedness which leads us to mistreat an animal will not be long in showing itself in our relationships with other people.
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What need does the earth have of us?
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Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.
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La desaparición de la humildad, en un ser humano desaforadamente entusiasmado con la posibilidad de dominarlo todo sin límite alguno, sólo puede terminar dañando a la sociedad y al ambiente.
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If someone has not learned to stop and admire something beautiful, we should not be surprised if he or she treats everything as an object to be used and abused without scruple. If we want to bring about deep change, we need to realize that certain mindsets really do influence our behaviour. Our efforts at education will be inadequate and ineffectual unless we strive to promote a new way of thinking about human beings, life, society and our relationship with nature. Otherwise, the paradigm of consumerism will continue to advance, with the help of the media and the highly effective workings of the market.
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the same wretchedness which leads us to mistreat an animal will not be long in showing itself in our relationships with other people. Every act of cruelty towards any creature is “contrary to human dignity”.
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the earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor; she “groans in travail” (Rom 8:22). We have forgotten that we ourselves are dust of the earth (cf. Gen 2:7); our very bodies are made up of her elements, we breathe her air and we receive life and refreshment from her waters.
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The ultimate purpose of other creatures is not to be found in us. Rather, all creatures are moving forward with us and through us towards a common point of arrival, which is God, in that transcendent fullness where the risen Christ embraces and illumines all things.
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The time has come to pay renewed attention to reality and the limits it imposes; this in turn is the condition for a more sound and fruitful development of individuals and society.
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Let us sing as we go. May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope.
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Necesitamos una solidaridad universal nueva.
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If we approach nature and the environment without this openness to awe and wonder, if we no longer speak the language of fraternity and beauty in our relationship with the world, our attitude will be that of masters, consumers, ruthless exploiters, unable to set limits on their immediate needs. By contrast, if we feel intimately united with all that exists, then sobriety and care will well up spontaneously.
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El mundo es algo más que un problema a resolver, es un misterio gozoso que contemplamos con jubilosa alabanza. Mi
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Besides, we know that approximately a third of all food produced is discarded, and “whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor”.[29]
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When people become self-centred and self-enclosed, their greed increases. The emptier a person’s heart is, the more he or she needs things to buy, own and consume. It becomes almost impossible to accept the limits imposed by reality. In this horizon, a genuine sense of the common good also disappears. As these attitudes become more widespread, social norms are respected only to the extent that they do not clash with personal needs.
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san Francisco, fiel a la Escritura, nos propone reconocer la naturaleza como un espléndido libro en el cual Dios nos habla y nos refleja algo de su hermosura y de su bondad: «A través de la grandeza y de la belleza de las criaturas, se conoce por analogía al autor» (Sb 13,5),
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Dado que todo está relacionado, tampoco es compatible la defensa de la naturaleza con la justificación del aborto. No parece factible un camino educativo para acoger a los seres débiles que nos rodean, que a veces son molestos o inoportunos, si no se protege a un embrión humano aunque su llegada sea causa de molestias y dificultades:
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How wonderful is the certainty that each human life is not adrift in the midst of hopeless chaos, in a world ruled by pure chance or endlessly recurring cycles! The Creator can say to each one of us: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you” (Jer 1:5). We were conceived in the heart of God, and for this reason “each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary”.[39]
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Por ejemplo, muchos pájaros e insectos que desaparecen a causa de los agrotóxicos creados por la tecnología son útiles a la misma agricultura, y su desaparición deberá ser sustituida con otra intervención tecnológica, que posiblemente traerá nuevos efectos nocivos. Son loables y a veces admirables los esfuerzos de científicos y técnicos que tratan de aportar soluciones a los problemas creados por el ser humano. Pero mirando el mundo advertimos que este nivel de intervención humana, frecuentemente al servicio de las finanzas y del consumismo, hace que la tierra en que vivimos en realidad se vuelva menos rica y bella, cada vez más limitada y gris, mientras al mismo tiempo el desarrollo de la tecnología y de las ofertas de consumo sigue avanzando sin límite. De este modo, parece que pretendiéramos sustituir una belleza irreemplazable e irrecuperable, por otra creada por nosotros.
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Caminemos cantando. Que nuestras luchas y nuestra preocupación por este planeta no nos quiten el gozo de la esperanza. 245.
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«La luz de la fe, unida a la verdad del amor, no es ajena al mundo material, porque el amor se vive siempre en cuerpo y alma; la luz de la fe es una luz encarnada, que procede de la vida luminosa de Jesús.
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Happiness means knowing how to limit some needs which only diminish us, and being open to the many different possibilities which life can offer.
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the encyclical also deals with poverty, the destruction of biodiversity, the pollution of fresh water and the oceans, sustainable food, extractive industries, and the waste created by the global economy.
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Everyone’s talents and involvement are needed to redress the damage caused by human abuse of God’s creation”.22 All of us can cooperate as instruments of God for the care of creation, each according to his or her own culture, experience, involvements and talents.
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Praised be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; and bears a likeness of you, Most High. Praised be you, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars, in heaven you formed them clear and precious and beautiful. Praised be you, my Lord, through Brother Wind, and through the air, cloudy and serene, and every kind of weather through whom you give sustenance to your creatures. Praised be you, my Lord, through Sister Water, who is very useful and humble and precious and chaste. Praised be you, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom you light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
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things do not look that serious, and the planet could continue as it is for some time. Such evasiveness serves as a licence to carrying on with our present lifestyles and models of production and consumption. This is the way human beings contrive to feed their self-destructive vices: trying not to see them, trying not to acknowledge them, delaying the important decisions and pretending that nothing will happen.
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The failure of global summits on the environment make it plain that our politics are subject to technology and finance.
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ictícolas perjudica especialmente a quienes viven de
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When we fail to acknowledge as part of reality the worth of a poor person, a human embryo, a person with disabilities – to offer just a few examples – it becomes difficult to hear the cry of nature itself; everything is connected.
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There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.
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Por eso, los Obispos de Nueva Zelanda se preguntaron qué significa el mandamiento «no matarás» cuando «un veinte por ciento de la población mundial consume recursos en tal medida que roba a las naciones pobres y a las futuras generaciones lo que necesitan para sobrevivir»
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Esto nos impide entender la naturaleza como algo separado de nosotros o como un mero marco de nuestra vida. Estamos incluidos en ella, somos parte de ella y estamos interpenetrados.
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Cuando se propone una visión de la naturaleza únicamente como objeto de provecho y de interés, esto también tiene serias consecuencias en la sociedad.
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Even as the quality of available water is constantly diminishing, in some places there is a growing tendency, despite its scarcity, to privatize this resource, turning it into a commodity subject to the laws of the market. Yet access to safe drinkable water is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival and, as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights. Our world has a grave social debt towards the poor who lack access to drinking water, because they are denied the right to a life consistent with their inalienable dignity.
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«un crimen contra la naturaleza es un crimen contra nosotros mismos y un pecado contra Dios»
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También el ambiente social tiene sus heridas. Pero todas ellas se deben en el fondo al mismo mal, es decir, a la idea de que no existen verdades indiscutibles que guíen nuestras vidas, por lo cual la libertad humana no tiene límites.
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«cuando haya peligro de daño grave o irreversible, la falta de certeza científica absoluta no deberá utilizarse como razón para postergar la adopción de medidas eficaces»[132]
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«los progresos científicos más extraordinarios, las proezas técnicas más sorprendentes, el crecimiento económico más prodigioso, si no van acompañados por un auténtico progreso social y moral, se vuelven en definitiva contra el hombre»[3]
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It is remarkable how weak international political responses have been. The failure of global summits on the environment make it plain that our politics are subject to technology and finance.
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Existen formas de contaminación que afectan cotidianamente a las personas. La exposición a los contaminantes atmosféricos produce un amplio espectro de efectos sobre la salud, especialmente de los más pobres, provocando millones de muertes prematuras. Se enferman, por ejemplo, a causa de la inhalación de elevados niveles de humo que procede de los combustibles que utilizan para cocinar o para calentarse. A ello se suma la contaminación que afecta a todos, debida al transporte, al humo de la industria, a los depósitos de sustancias que contribuyen a la acidificación del suelo y del agua, a los fertilizantes, insecticidas, fungicidas, controladores de malezas y agrotóxicos en general. La tecnología que, ligada a las finanzas, pretende ser la única solución de los problemas, de hecho suele ser incapaz de ver el misterio de las múltiples relaciones que existen entre las cosas, y por eso a veces resuelve un problema creando otros.
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destruction. The work of the Church seeks not only to remind everyone of the duty to care for nature, but at the same time “she must above all protect mankind from self-destruction”.[47]
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Tenemos demasiados medios para unos escasos y raquíticos fines.
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En realidad, quienes disfrutan más y viven mejor cada momento son los que dejan de picotear aquí y allá, buscando siempre lo que no tienen, y experimentan lo que es valorar cada persona y cada cosa, aprenden a tomar contacto y saben gozar con lo más simple.
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Si «los desiertos exteriores se multiplican en el mundo porque se han extendido los desiertos interiores»[152], la crisis ecológica es un llamado a una profunda conversión interior.
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Or indeed when the desire to create and contemplate beauty manages to overcome reductionism through a kind of salvation which occurs in beauty and in those who behold it. An authentic humanity, calling for a new synthesis, seems to dwell in the midst of our technological culture, almost unnoticed, like a mist seeping gently beneath a closed door. Will the promise last, in spite of everything, with all that is authentic rising up in stubborn resistance? 113. There is also the fact that people no longer seem to believe in a happy future; they no longer have blind trust in a better tomorrow based on the present state of the world and our technical abilities. There is a growing awareness that scientific and technological progress cannot be equated with the progress of humanity and history, a growing sense that the way to a better future lies elsewhere. This is not to reject the possibilities which technology continues to offer us. But humanity has changed profoundly, and the accumulation of constant novelties exalts a superficiality which pulls us in one direction. It becomes difficult to pause and recover depth in life. If architecture reflects the spirit of an age, our megastructures and drab apartment blocks express the spirit of globalized technology, where a constant flood of new products coexists with a tedious monotony. Let us refuse to resign ourselves to this, and continue to wonder about the purpose and meaning of everything.
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Porque todas las criaturas están conectadas, cada una debe ser valorada con afecto y admiración, y todos los seres nos necesitamos unos a otros.
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ninguna instancia por encima
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Hace falta cuidar los lugares comunes, los marcos visuales y los hitos urbanos que acrecientan nuestro sentido de pertenencia, nuestra sensación de arraigo, nuestro sentimiento de «estar en casa» dentro de la ciudad que nos contiene y nos une.
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la técnica separada de la ética difícilmente será capaz de autolimitar su poder.
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«la protección ambiental no puede asegurarse sólo en base al cálculo financiero de costos y beneficios. El ambiente es uno de esos bienes que los mecanismos del mercado no son capaces de defender o de promover adecuadamente»
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106. The basic problem goes even deeper: it is the way that humanity has taken up technology and its development according to an undifferentiated and one-dimensional paradigm. This paradigm exalts the concept of a subject who, using logical and rational procedures, progressively approaches and gains control over an external object. This subject makes every effort to establish the scientific and experimental method, which in itself is already a technique of possession, mastery and transformation. It is as if the subject were to find itself in the presence of something formless, completely open to manipulation.
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106. The basic problem goes even deeper: it is the way that humanity has taken up technology and its development according to an undifferentiated and one-dimensional paradigm. This paradigm exalts the concept of a subject who, using logical and rational procedures, progressively approaches and gains control over an external object. This subject makes every effort to establish the scientific and experimental method, which in itself is already a technique of possession, mastery and transformation. It is as if the subject were to find itself in the presence of something formless, completely open to manipulation. Men
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El fin último de las demás criaturas no somos nosotros. Pero todas avanzan, junto con nosotros y a través de nosotros, hacia el término común, que es Dios, en una plenitud trascendente donde Cristo resucitado abraza e ilumina todo. Porque el ser humano, dotado de inteligencia y de amor, y atraído por la plenitud de Cristo, está llamado a reconducir todas las criaturas a su Creador.
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Todo el universo material es un lenguaje del amor de Dios, de su desmesurado cariño hacia nosotros.
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«¡Grandes y maravillosas son tus obras, Señor Dios omnipotente, justos y verdaderos tus caminos!» (Ap 15,3).
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True wisdom, as the fruit of self-examination, dialogue, and generous encounter between persons, is not acquired by a mere accumulation of data which eventually leads to overload and confusion, a sort of mental pollution. Real relationships with others, with all the challenges they entail, now tend to be replaced by a type of internet communication which enables us to choose or eliminate relationships at whim, thus giving rise to a new type of contrived emotion which has more to do with devices and displays than with other people and with nature.
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«la Iglesia defiende, sí, el legítimo derecho a la propiedad privada, pero enseña con no menor claridad que sobre toda propiedad privada grava siempre una hipoteca social, para que los bienes sirvan a la destinación general que Dios les ha dado»[74].
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Para la comprensión cristiana de la realidad, el destino de toda la creación pasa por el misterio de Cristo, que está presente desde el origen de todas las cosas: «Todo fue creado por él y para él»
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La cultura ecológica no se puede reducir a una serie de respuestas urgentes y parciales a los problemas que van apareciendo en torno a la degradación del ambiente, al agotamiento de las reservas naturales y a la contaminación. Debería ser una mirada distinta, un pensamiento, una política, un programa educativo, un estilo de vida y una espiritualidad que conformen una resistencia ante el avance del paradigma tecnocrático.
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The majority of people living on our planet profess to be believers. This should spur religions to dialogue among themselves for the sake of protecting nature, defending the poor, and building networks of respect and fraternity.
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It cannot be maintained that empirical science provides a complete explanation of life, the interplay of all creatures and the whole of reality.
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Es indispensable la continuidad, porque no se pueden modificar las políticas relacionadas con el cambio climático y la protección del ambiente cada vez que cambia un gobierno.
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Simplemente se trata de redefinir el progreso. Un desarrollo tecnológico y económico que no deja un mundo mejor y una calidad de vida integralmente superior no puede considerarse progreso.
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This is the way human beings contrive to feed their self-destructive vices: trying not to see them, trying not to acknowledge them, delaying the important decisions and pretending that nothing will happen.
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Noah, who remained innocent and just, God decided to open a path of salvation. In this way he gave humanity the chance of a new beginning. All it takes is one good person to restore hope! The biblical tradition clearly shows that this renewal entails recovering and respecting the rhythms inscribed in nature by the hand of the Creator. We see this, for example, in the law of the Sabbath. On the seventh day, God rested from all his work. He commanded Israel to set aside each seventh day as a day of rest, a Sabbath,
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Praised be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; and bears a likeness of you, Most High. Praised be you, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars, in heaven you formed them clear and precious and beautiful. Praised be you, my Lord, through Brother Wind, and through the air, cloudy and serene, and every kind of weather through whom you give sustenance to your creatures. Praised be you, my Lord, through Sister Water, who is very useful and humble and precious and chaste. Praised be you, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom you light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong”.
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Pero también tenemos que reconocer que algunos cristianos comprometidos y orantes, bajo una excusa de realismo y pragmatismo, suelen burlarse de las preocupaciones por el medio ambiente. Otros son pasivos, no se deciden a cambiar sus hábitos y se vuelven incoherentes. Les hace falta entonces una conversión ecológica,
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Una ecología integral implica dedicar algo de tiempo para recuperar la serena armonía con la creación, para reflexionar acerca de nuestro estilo de vida y nuestros ideales, para contemplar al Creador, que vive entre nosotros y en lo que nos rodea, cuya presencia «no debe ser fabricada sino descubierta, develada»
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The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless” (Is 40:28b-29).
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The Lord, in the culmination of the mystery of the Incarnation, chose to reach our intimate depths through a fragment of matter. He comes not from above, but from within, he comes that we might find him in this world of ours. In the Eucharist, fullness is already achieved; it is the living centre of the universe, the overflowing core of love and of inexhaustible life.
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Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving our world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the areas in which it operates, especially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common good.
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lo cierto es que el actual sistema mundial es insostenible desde diversos puntos de vista, porque hemos dejado de pensar en los fines de la acción humana: «Si la mirada recorre las regiones de nuestro planeta, enseguida nos damos cuenta de que la humanidad ha defraudado las expectativas divinas»[35].
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128. We were created with a vocation to work. The goal should not be that technological progress increasingly replace human work, for this would be detrimental to humanity. Work is a necessity, part of the meaning of life on this earth, a path to growth, human development and personal fulfilment. Helping the poor financially must always be a provisional solution in the face of pressing needs. The broader objective should always be to allow them a dignified life through work.
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Genesis account which grants man “dominion” over the earth (cf. Gen 1:28),
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Pope Francis (ENCYCLICAL LETTER LAUDATO SI' ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME)
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que convencernos de que desacelerar un determinado ritmo de producción y de consumo puede dar lugar a otro modo de progreso y desarrollo. Los esfuerzos para un uso sostenible de los recursos naturales no son un gasto inútil, sino una inversión que podrá ofrecer otros beneficios económicos a medio plazo. Si no tenemos estrechez de miras, podemos descubrir que la diversificación de una producción más innovativa y con menor impacto ambiental, puede ser muy rentable. Se trata de abrir camino a oportunidades diferentes, que no implican detener la creatividad humana y su sueño de progreso, sino orientar esa energía con cauces nuevos.
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
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Sólo podría considerarse ético un comportamiento en el cual «los costes económicos y sociales que se derivan del uso de los recursos ambientales comunes se reconozcan de manera transparente y sean sufragados totalmente por aquellos que se benefician, y no por otros o por las futuras generaciones»
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
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hecho de reutilizar algo en lugar de desecharlo rápidamente, a partir de profundas motivaciones, puede ser un acto de amor que exprese nuestra propia dignidad.
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
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un verdadero planteo ecológico se convierte siempre en un planteo social, que debe integrar la justicia en las discusiones sobre el ambiente, para escuchar tanto el clamor de la tierra como el clamor de los pobres.
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
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A partir de los relatos bíblicos, consideramos al ser humano como sujeto, que nunca puede ser reducido a la categoría de objeto. 82. Pero también sería equivocado pensar que los demás seres vivos deban ser considerados como meros objetos sometidos a la arbitraria dominación humana.
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
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partir de los relatos bíblicos, consideramos al ser humano como sujeto, que nunca puede ser reducido a la categoría de objeto. 82. Pero también sería equivocado pensar que los demás seres vivos deban ser considerados como meros objetos sometidos a la arbitraria dominación humana. Cuando se propone una visión de la naturaleza únicamente como objeto de provecho y de interés, esto también tiene serias consecuencias en la sociedad.
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
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No puede ser real un sentimiento de íntima unión con los demás seres de la naturaleza si al mismo tiempo en el corazón no hay ternura, compasión y preocupación por los seres humanos. Es evidente la incoherencia de quien lucha contra el tráfico de animales en riesgo de extinción, pero permanece completamente indiferente ante la trata de personas, se desentiende de los pobres o se empeña en destruir a otro ser humano que le desagrada.
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
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«Paz, justicia y conservación de la creación son tres temas absolutamente ligados, que no podrán apartarse para ser tratados individualmente so pena de caer nuevamente en el reduccionismo»[70]. Todo está relacionado, y todos los seres humanos estamos juntos como hermanos y hermanas en una maravillosa peregrinación, entrelazados por el amor que Dios tiene a cada una de sus criaturas y que nos une también, con tierno cariño, al hermano sol, a la hermana luna, al hermano río y a la madre tierra.
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
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Es fundamental buscar soluciones integrales que consideren las interacciones de los sistemas naturales entre sí y con los sistemas sociales. No hay dos crisis separadas, una ambiental y otra social, sino una sola y compleja crisis socio-ambiental. Las líneas para la solución requieren una aproximación integral para combatir la pobreza, para devolver la dignidad a los excluidos y simultáneamente para cuidar la naturaleza.
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
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Sabemos que la tecnología basada en combustibles fósiles muy contaminantes —sobre todo el carbón, pero aun el petróleo y, en menor medida, el gas— necesita ser reemplazada progresivamente y sin demora.
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
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La Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el desarrollo sostenible denominada Rio+20 (Río de Janeiro 2012) emitió una extensa e ineficaz Declaración final. Las negociaciones internacionales no pueden avanzar significativamente por las posiciones de los países que privilegian sus intereses nacionales sobre el bien común global. Quienes sufrirán las consecuencias que nosotros intentamos disimular recordarán esta falta de conciencia y de responsabilidad. Mientras se elaboraba esta Encíclica, el debate ha adquirido una particular intensidad. Los creyentes no podemos dejar de pedirle a Dios por el avance positivo en las discusiones actuales, de manera que las generaciones futuras no sufran las consecuencias de imprudentes retardos.
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
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En la Declaración de Río de 1992, se sostiene que, «cuando haya peligro de daño grave o irreversible, la falta de certeza científica absoluta no deberá utilizarse como razón para postergar la adopción de medidas eficaces»[132] que impidan la degradación del medio ambiente.
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
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Toda la sociedad —y en ella, de manera especial el Estado— tiene la obligación de defender y promover el bien común.
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
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Es trágico el aumento de los migrantes huyendo de la miseria empeorada por la degradación ambiental, que no son reconocidos como refugiados en las convenciones internacionales y llevan el peso de sus vidas abandonadas sin protección normativa alguna.
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
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la acción de la Iglesia no sólo intenta recordar el deber de cuidar la naturaleza, sino que al mismo tiempo «debe proteger sobre todo al hombre contra la destrucción de sí mismo»
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))
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sostenible e integral. El cambio es algo deseable, pero
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Pope Francis (Laudato si' (Documentos MC))