- We tend to blame each other for poverty and environmental degradation
- Big business takes over small enterprises and devastates the land
- Overproduction of products, such as milk
- Vast inequality in peoples’ lives
- Financial crisis was an opportunity to remedy inequality that was missed
- Products have a value, but human lives often seem to have no value
- Social housing is being lost to gentrification and people are being pushed further and further out
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Sarah
23/9/2015 10:41:11 am
Hi, Alice quotes her friend's question - what do we do next, and surely it's a matter of personal discernment - what are we good at and what can we do? One of this group's members spoke about making an effort to get to know neighbours, and how rewarding this is. Picking up litter is another simple gesture...
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Sarah Tolley
20/10/2015 05:06:22 pm
Having just attended a discussion about Oil Wars and Global Warming, I was struck by the absence of joined-up thinking in the group, and it was clear the Pope's Encyclical was not being studied. That said, we were left with the thought that defeatism about the environment has been carefully nurtured by the powerful US Climate change deniers' lobby and I was heartened to think that we Christians are enjoined to hope.
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Laudato SiThis blog was set up following our group discussions about Laudato Si - Pope Francis' Encyclical on the Care of our Common Home, at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Lauriston, in September 2015. This is intended to be a place where you can find a few follow-up resources, reflect on the content of the discussions and the Encyclical, and engage in discussion with themes that interest you. Chapter 5 - the next steps
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