Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality: On Care for Our Common Home [Paperback]

The complete text ofLaudato Si’,the landmark encyclical letter from Pope Francis that, asTimemagazine reported, “rocked the international community”

In theEncyclical on Climate Change and Inequality, the beloved Pope exhorts the world to combat environmental degradation and its impact on the poor. In a stirring, clarion call that is not merely aimed at Catholic readers but rather at a wide, lay audience, the Pope cites the overwhelming scientific evidence of climate change, and does not hesitate to detail how it is the result of a historic level of unequal distribution of wealth.

It is, in short, as theNew York Timeslabeled it, “An urgent call to action . . . intended to persuade followers around the world to change their behavior, in hopes of protecting a fragile planet.”

With an insightful and informative introduction by Harvard professor Naomi Oreskes, famed for her bestsellingMerchants of Doubt:How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.Contents

Introduction by Naomi Oreskes
 
Preface
 
1. What Is Happening to Our Common Home
2. The Gospel of Creation
3. The Human Roots of the Ecological Crisis
4. Integral Ecology
5. Lines of Approach and Action
6. Ecological Education and Spirituality

NotesPraise for theEncyclical on Climate Change and Inequality

“An urgent call to action.”
—The New York Times

“This breathtaking amalgam of urgency and poetry mines the spirit and appeals to the moral core... That a secular publisher, Melville House, chose to print in its entirety the papal document...bespeaks its relevance beyond the walls of the Roman Catholic Church.
—Chicago Tribune

“The most astonishing and perhaps the most ambitious papalãe