{"id":13349,"date":"2020-07-31T11:50:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/?post_type=collection&#038;p=13349"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:21:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:21:18","slug":"pope-francis-and-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"collection","link":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/collections\/pope-francis-and-the-environment","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis on the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pope Francis\u2019s long-anticipated encyclical on the environment and the poor was released in June 2015. It is titled&nbsp;<em>Laudato Si\u2019<\/em>, a phrase meaning \u201cbe praised,\u201d taken from Saint Francis of Assisi\u2019s Canticle of the Sun (\u201cBe praised, my Lord, through all Your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun &#8230; through Sister Moon and the stars\u201d). The encyclical makes a moral case for addressing environmental issues, especially climate change. In this symposium,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/the-flawed-economics-of-laudato-si\">W.&nbsp;David Montgomery<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;analyzes the encyclical\u2019s economic and political implications;&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/is-pope-francis-anti-modern\">M.&nbsp;Anthony Mills<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;asks whether Pope Francis is anti-modern; and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/two-approaches-to-climate-action\">Brendan Foht<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;contrasts the encyclical with another major environmental statement \u2014 the recent \u201cEcomodernist Manifesto.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18913,"template":"","collection_type":[2247],"topics":[2268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/13349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/collection"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection_type?post=13349"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=13349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}