Columban Competition 2020 Tackling our Throwaway Culture – Joint Third Prize Article
Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire By Gabriela Fanucciu When trying to put out the disaster of deforestation, plastic only fuelled the flames. In 1959, a Swedish engineer…
Laudato Si' - Chapter 1
…is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth” (21). Francis laments the “throwaway culture…as it quickly reduces things to rubbish” (22); as he does in…
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…the need to respond to the throwaway culture; the other, a social and environmental conversion as expressed in Laudato Si’. “In our world today,” Roewe notes, “Glaciers are melting. Intense…
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Laudato Si' - Chapter 3
…centre…and see everything as irrelevant unless it serves one’s own immediate interests” (122). This leads to a “culture of waste” and also to a “throwaway” mentality in relation to the…
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