Pope Francis has formed a partnership with the Italian agnostic founder of the Slow Food movement while dodding his calls to protect the profit-driven development environment, which he believes harms the world’s poorest.
On Saturday, Francis welcomed Carlo Petrini to the Vatican and met with the participants of an agreement that the communist activist modeler helped shape to implement the Pope’s calls for ecological sustainability and solidarity. The agreement is named after Francis’ 2015 environmental encyclical, Laudato Sii”(Praise be to him).
The public, like Francis’ recent weekly catechism classes linking coronavirus to social justice issues, seem to be geared towards raising awareness of the interconnection of people, the planet, and the pandemic before Francis’ next encyclical on a post-COVID-19 world.
During the hearing, Francis said that the pandemic had evidently shown that “humanity’s fitness must be separated from that of the environment in which it lives. “
The Pope denounced food waste in rich countries and demanded that political leaders take on climate change, warn that time is running out, and that long-term generations will judge their inaction.
“We want the will to deal with the reasons for climate change from its root,” Francis said. “Generic commitments – words, words – are not enough and cannot simply be answers to an immediate consensus or to the electorate or business interests. We will have to look beyond that, otherwise history will not forgive us ».
Petrini published this week an e-book of interviews with Francis conducted for more than 3 years. The e-book, “TerraFutura” (“FutureEarth”), covers a number of environmental problems, from the Amazon rainforest to food migration and the Pope’s evolution to environmental risk to the planet.
In the book’s introduction, Petrini recognizes the peculiarity of his association, which he says began in 2013 and has since deepened.
“We are two other people with another past, although we temporarily identify another in ourselves,” he writes. “An agnostic and a Pope, an ex-communist and a Catholic, an Italian and an Argentine, a gastronomer and a theologian.
Petrini introduced the Slow Food movement in 1986 after a demonstration in Rome on the site of the Spanish Square of a McDonald’s project. The movement has a foreign arrangement that seeks to protect regional culinary traditions while selling smart food and its connection to the environment and culture. .
Proceeds from the eBook will be used to renovate a construction site in the city of Amatrice in central Italy, which is expected to be the headquarters of Petrini’s Laudato Sii network and to host educational events and events. The 2016 earthquake devastated Amatrice.