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THE CRISIS IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- 461.
- “The biblical message and the Church’s Magisterium represent the essential reference points for evaluating the problems found in the relationship between man and the environment.”
- “The tendency towards an ‘ill-considered’ exploitation of the resources of creation is the result of a long historical and cultural process.”
- 462.
- “Nature appears as an instrument in the hands of man, a reality that he must constantly manipulate, especially by means of technology.”
- “Such attitudes do not arise from scientific and technological research but from scientism and technocratic ideologies that tend to condition such research.”
- 463.
- “A correct understanding of the environment prevents the utilitarian reduction of nature to a mere object to be manipulated and exploited.”
- “The Magisterium finds the motivation for its opposition to a concept of the environment based on ecocentrism and on biocentrism.”
- 464.
- “A vision of man and things that is sundered from any reference to the transcendence has led to the rejection of the concept of creation and to the attribution of a completely independent existence to man and nature.”
- 465.
- “The Magisterium underscores human responsibility for the preservation of a sound and healthy environment for all.”
