{"id":2078,"date":"2015-06-21T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/doing-business\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2016-12-20T12:05:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T11:05:32","slug":"pope-francis-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/doing-business\/2015\/06\/21\/pope-francis-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis and The Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his second\u00a0Encyclical, Laudato Si<\/em><\/strong>, Pope Francis makes the case<\/strong> in over 38,000 words, six chapters, and 245 paragraphs that we need to do something about the\u00a0environmental crisis<\/strong>. The full text in a number of languages can be found here<\/a> and I would urge anyone interested in either Pope Francis, or the environment, to take a look<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Maciej Grabowski, Polish Minister for the Environment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I heard about the Encyclical last week while in Warsaw where I was making a speech on the link between biodiversity and business and was eager to read the whole text. While it is impossible to condense such a work in under\u00a0700 words, I will make the attempt in the hope that people will download the full text and then\u00a0make up their own mind about it.<\/p>\n

Praise Be To You<\/strong><\/p>\n

After citing every Pope\u00a0since John XXIII and referencing Patriarch\u00a0Bartholomew and Saint Francis, The Pope appeals to “all people of good will”<\/em>\u00a0to open a new dialog and to build on the work done\u00a0by the worldwide ecological\u00a0movement. In the introduction to the Encyclical (14) he says:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Regrettably, many efforts to seek concrete solutions to the environmental crisis have proved ineffective, not only because of powerful opposition but also because of a more general lack of interest. Obstructionist attitudes, even on the part of believers, can range from denial of the problem to indifference, nonchalant resignation or blind confidence in technical solutions.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

While I neither have the necessary training nor place to comment on the theological aspects of the Encyclical, from an environmental perspective it is well structured and researched. Chapter One, for example,\u00a0What Is Happening To Our Common Home<\/strong>\u00a0touches on the same themes that this blog has been talking about about including:<\/p>\n