In June, 2015, a few months before the Paris Climate Agreement, Pope Francis published, “‘Laudato Si’ (On Care for Our Common Home),” the first papal encyclical to focus specifically on the environment. 

To make sense of this letter (an encyclical is a papal letter that gets circulated, thus the “cyclical” part of the term), I spoke with one of the leading experts on the subject, Christiana Zenner, Associate Professor of Theology, Science and Ethics in the Department of Theology at Fordham University.

You can find the full text of the Encyclical here .

Here are some links to other people/ events/ etc. that we discuss in the episode:

The Synod on the Amazon – official website and final document.

Reading on St. Thomas Aquinas and his views on Moral Philosophy (note the section on Justice).

Lynn White’s  paper “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis”

Eric Holthaus’ Twitter Account

Time Article on Greta Thunberg