Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini
said he's "convinced" that Pope Francis's encyclical on climate
change, published Thursday, "will be a historical document for
humanity and not only for the Church," speaking on the sidelines
of a Lavazza Group social budget presentation on Friday.
"It's reductive to call it a green or environmentalist
encyclical, because this is an encyclical of new humanism,"
Petrini said.
"It's an attack on the economic and financial system, on
lifestyle, on consumerism, on the scant attention to the
environment," he said.
"In the measure in which it will move the souls, the
consciences, and the behaviors of billions of people in the
world, it will remain a fixed point in the history of humanity,"
Petrini said.
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