Pope Francis's Encyclical On The Enviroment.

[sevenOP]

Has anyone read it or heard about it or read about it ?

I have the heard on radio about it and read a little about it.
It seems to address contemporary society re class warfare, industrial conflict and changing climate.(Pope Francis is a trained chemist and only one lung.)

Seems the 200 pages look at many of the little discussed externalities
of global market capitalism - the inconvenient truths like emissions and the pollution that results in millions of premature deaths just from air pollution alone that is never factored in to the cost driven analysis that drives market based capitalism around the world.

He describes how foreign debt is a method of controlling poor countries; how developing countries with resources fuel richer countries to the own cost of their present and future (ripped off),so whatever is fragile, like the environment is defenceless against a deified market which becomes the only goal.
The Pope is talking about a 'new social contract'. GDP as the be-all is challenged.

[DTCwordfan]

and what does the Pope know about sex?

Not much, except with wee boys perhaps?

[mikey4444]

As long as he preaches abstaining from birth control, anything else coming out of the Vatican should be taken with pinch or two of salt.

[atalanta]

As Popes go, this one seems both humble and sensible, as well as open-minded. I wonder if he might, some time in the future, rethink both "De Casti Connubii" and " Humanae Vitae".

[sevenOP]

DTCwordfan, the Encyclical does not deal with carnality, to my knowledge.

mickey444, so small improvements are of no consequence ?

atalanta, the Church's view on the sanctity of marriage and birth control are as likely to change as muslim's ignoring Muhammed.

[benhilton]

It's on the Vatican Website :

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html