As the debate about the environment continues, Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ demonstrated how the catholic perspective can transcend the dialectic between an anthropocentric technocracy and a biocentric environmentalism: laying out an “integral ecology” that respects both the solidarity and the difference between the human being and the rest of the cosmos. Man is at once a part of nature and its steward, and natural ecology and “human ecology” therefore stand or fall together.
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Bigger is Not Always Better by Alexander Binder
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Ernest F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
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Poverty and the Simple Life by Carla Galdo
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Thomas DuBay S.M., Happy Are Your Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom
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The Global and the Local by John Laracy
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William T. Cavanaugh, Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire
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On Minimalism: Is the “Bare Minimum” Essential Enough? by Margaret Harper McCarthy
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Joshua Fields and Ryan Nicodemus Milburn, Minimalism–Live a Meaningful Life
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