‘Praise You’, “Gambino” not only caters to the Catholics’ – La Stampa

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(© LaPresse) The Encyclical of Francesco ecology

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” The encyclical speaks to all people who inhabit the earth, not only those of “good will”, which like it or not are part of human society, and it’s a very important novelty. Then there is a critical technique and technologies for their own sake if not related to culture and promotion of the human person. ” “Encyclical on time, but realistic and dramatic, that calls humanity to a step change in the behavior and relationships.” This is the comment of Professor Alberto Gambino, Director of the Department of Human Sciences of the European University of Rome, host of the TV of the CEI (edition of 18 June tgtg – Newscasts in comparison).

“The Pope – said Gambino – calls us to a change of behaviors and lifestyles, otherwise the risk that our children do not see the world as we have known us is very real. And it is a message addressed not only to believers. It must be discerned, with intelligence, with respect to the media bombardment on ecological issues: There is a wonderful expression that strikes: “Noise dispersed information.” In it the Pope evokes a context in which the city, immersed in the scenario of internet and communications technologically advanced, is the victim of a barrage of ideas, opinions and points of view that are dispersed and do not allow to create a calm judgment, wise. Here then is the document of rare communicative effectiveness and full of content and surveys on the state of health of the planet, it proves decisive in the perception that today actually, on environmental issues, we are facing a historic transition and facing the danger of arriving to a point of no return. ”

“There is a criticism of the finance, economy and especially solutions to lost after the crisis, when it would have to find a balance that did not favor only part of the solution, in the sense very brief banks, but also favored the entire population. We’re not talking about a conflict banks against people, but solutions that in practice favored elite and that has resulted in partial choices, we could say disconnected from the good and the public interest. It is confirmed then a reading where the man, the person is a value, a wealth in itself, the engine of development and therefore there are more people on the planet and there is more chance of development. But – and it’s an underscore important – what people are talking about, than it squanders, speculates and tramples human rights? If so then it would be a false anthropocentrism: put man at the center and the person is to have an idea and a clear anthropological practice of correct behavior, otherwise you would end up rotating around the man “consumerist” the future of planet and its probable self-destruction. ”

“Even the critical technology – Gambino says – is aimed at its eradication from the content and purpose of being an instrument of cultural and humanitarian support to the growth of the people and not to his selfish use and end in same. Even the digital environment, the ecosystem, but also the living environment, the urban fabric of major cities, has increasingly bind to being and not having, and what transpires from a style and behavior imbued with sobriety and reflection, leading to create living conditions and physical and technological infrastructure in harmony with the physical and spiritual health of the citizens of the world. ”