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Chapter 1

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR COMMON HOME

1. Pollution and Climate Change
   Pollution, waste and the throwaway culture [20-22]
   Climate as a common good [23-26]
2. The issue of water [27-31]
3. Loss of biodiversity [32-42]
4. Decline in the quality of human human life and the the breakdown of society [43-47]
5. Global Inequality [48-52]
6. Weak Responses [53-59]
7. Variety of Opinions [60-61]

Chapter 2

1. The light offered by faith [63-64]
2. The wisdom of the Biblical accounts [65-75]
3. The mystery of the universe [76-83]
4. The message of each creature in the harmony of creation [84-88]
5. A universal communion [89-92]
6. The common destination of goods [93-95]
7. The gaze of Jesus [96-100]

Chapter 3

THE HUMAN ROOTS OF THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS

1. Technology: creativity and power [102-105]
2. The globalisation of the technocratic paradigm [106-114]
3. The crisis and effects of modern anthropocentrism [115-121]

Practical relativism [122-123]
The need to protect employment [124-129]
New biological technologies [130-136]

Chapter 4

INTEGRAL ECOLOGY

1. Environmental, economic and social ecology [138-142]
2. Cultural Ecology [143-146]
3. Ekoloġija tal-ħajja ta’ kuljum [147-155]
4. Il-prinċipju tal-ġid komuni [156-158]
5. Il-ġustizzja bejn il-ġenerazzjonijiet [159-162]

Chapter 5

LINES OF APPROACH AND ACTION

1. Dialogue on the environment in the international community [164-175]
2. Dialogue for new national and local policies [176-181]
3. Dialogue and transparency in decision-making [182-188]
4. Politics and economy in dialogue for human fulfilment [189-198]
5. Religions in dialogue with science [199-201]

Chapter 6

ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION AND SPIRITUALITY

1. Towards a new lifestyle [203-208]
2. Educating for the covenant between humanity and the environment [209-215]
3. Ecological conversion [216-221]
4. Joy and peace [222-227]
5. Civic and political love [228-232]
6. Sacramental signs and the celebration of rest [233-237]
7. The trinity and the relationship between creatures [238-240]
8. Queen of all creation [241-242]
9. Beyond the sun [243-245]

A prayer for our earth [246]
A Christian prayer in union with creation

INTRODUCTION

1. “LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”… Read more »