TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mcdonagh, Sean
AU  - Mcdonagh,Sean
TI  - On Care for Our Common Home:  Laudato Si: The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment
SN  - 9789383163960
U1  - C81 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Bangalore
PB  - Theological Publications in India
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Part 1  Catholic teaching and the environment ....1  1. Theological and historical background of laudato si ....3  Other voices ....6  St francis of Assisi ....7  Anti-body and anti-creature sentiments .....7  The Book of genesis ....9  Genesis undertood from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries ......12  The second vatican council`s domination theology ......14  Redefining relationships .....16  Linking the poor and the earth .....17  Excessive anthropocentrism .....18  Bibliography .....21  2. Climate change ....23  What causes climate change ....25  Fourth and fifth assessment reports of the intergovernmental panel on climate change ....27  Pontifical council for justice and peace conference on climate change .....29  Bishops conferences and climate change .....30  Shaping a theology and morality around climate change .....32  Intergenerational justice .....32  Sustainable living .....33  The precautionary principle .....34  Preferential option for the poor .....35  Solidarity .....36  Climate change in the united states .....37  Denial .....37  Politicans and climate change ......38  Us catholic church and climate change ....41  Climate change and economics .....43  Stranded assests .....43  Divestments ....45  Norway dumps coal stocks .....46  Changes need to be made now .....47  Stop subsidizing fossil fuel .....48  Renewables ....48  Bibliography ....30  3. Biodiversity ...53  Biodiversity hotspots ...56  Extinction of species and faith .....59  Extinction and the resurrection of jesus .....61  Levels of human population ....62  Bibliography ....67  4. Fresh water ....69  Water shortages .....70  Water pollution .....71  Water and poverty ....72  Water and health ....73  Water and world peace ....74  Access to water ....76  Climatechange and water ....78  Privatizing water .....79  Water and christianity .....81  Bibliography ....86  5. The oceans ....87  Oceans threatened by human activity ...88  Acidification of the oceans ....90  Ocean deoxygenation ....90  Stripping the oceans bare ....91  Giant trawlers plunder the seas ....93  Indstrial and agricultural waste ....94  Plastic and marine life .....95  Eutrophication .....95  Mining the oceans .....96  Coral reefs and mangrove forests ......96  Caring for the oceans .....98  The ocean in the bible ....100  Bibliography .....103  6. Sustainable food ....105  New agricultural paradigm .....106  Greenhouse gases and global warming ....108  Food consumption ......109  Meat consumption .....110  Loss of genetic diversity .....111  Consumption an waste ....112  Englightened  agriculture ...113  Urban farming as part of the answer ....114  International assessment of agricultural science andtechnology .....114  The contribution of genetic engineering .....115  The christian response ....117  Food and the eucharist ....118  Bibliography ....120  7. Responsibility for protecting the environment .....123  Need for ecological education .....124  A synod on ecology at local, national, and international levels .....128  Sources of hope .....129  Rachel carson: A visionary .....129  Joe farman: An ominous discovery .....133  Dorothy stang:  A maartyr for the earth ....135  Thomas berry: The new story .....137  Part II   Laudato si  one: What is happening to our common home .....154  1. Pollution and climate change .....155  11. The issue of water ....159  III. Loss of biodiversity ...160  IV. Decline in the quality of human life and the breakdown of society ....165  V. Global inequality ....166  VI. Weak responses ....170  VII. A variety of opinions ...173  Two: The gospel of creation .....174  1. The light offered by faith .....174  II. The wisdom of the biblical acounts ....175  III. The mystery of the universe .....182  IV. The message of each creature in the harminy of creation ....185  Three: The human roots of the ecological crisis .....194  Four: Integral ecology .....213  Five: Lines of approach and action .....225  Six: Ecological education and spirituality ....243
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