Pope encyclical 'historic for humanity'

(ANSA) - Milan, June 19 - 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Carlo Petrini said he's "convinced" that Pope Francis's encyclical on climate change, published Thursday, "will be a historical document for humanity and not only for the Church," speaking on the sidelines of a Lavazza Group social budget presentation on Friday.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.