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Neglecting to monitor the harm done to nature and the environmental impact of our decisions is only the most striking sign of a disregard for the message contained in the structures of nature itself. When we fail to acknowledge as part of reality the worth of a poor person, a human embryo, a person with disabilities \u2013 to offer just a few examples \u2013 it becomes difficult to hear the cry of nature itself; everything is connected. Once the human being declares independence from reality and behaves with absolute dominion, the very foundations of our life begin to crumble, for \u201cinstead of carrying out his role as a cooperator with God in the work of creation, man sets himself up in place of God and thus ends up provoking a rebellion on the part of nature\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

This situation has led to a constant schizophrenia, wherein a technocracy which sees no intrinsic value in lesser beings coexists with the other extreme, which sees no special value in human beings. But one cannot prescind from humanity. There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself. There can be no ecology without an adequate anthropology. When the human person is considered as simply one being among others, the product of chance or physical determinism, then \u201cour overall sense of responsibility wanes\u201d.<\/span>[96]<\/a>A misguided anthropocentrism need not necessarily yield to \u201cbiocentrism\u201d, for that would entail adding yet another imbalance, failing to solve present problems and adding new ones. Human beings cannot be expected to feel responsibility for the world unless, at the same time, their unique capacities of knowledge, will, freedom and responsibility are recognized and valued.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note how seamlessly he ties abortion to the Church\u2019s respect for nature and the poor. \u00a0These things are totally interconnected, which is why it is utter folly for environmentalists to be calling for abortion to solve our problems and why it is equally stupid for anti-abortion-but-not-prolife Catholics to be screaming about this encyclical as though it is the opposite of being prolife. \u00a0Using the unborn as human shields for contempt for the rest of the Church\u2019s teaching is the dumbest thing Movement Conservatism and its false apostles at place like Pewsitter could do.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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