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To: Poe White Trash

INDEED.


79 posted on 01/01/2010 9:45:52 PM PST by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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11. It is becoming more and more evident that the issue of environmental degradation challenges us to examine our life-style and the prevailing models of consumption and production, which are often unsustainable from a social, environmental and even economic point of view. We can no longer do without a real change of outlook which will result in new life-styles, “in which the quest for truth, beauty, goodness and communion with others for the sake of common growth are the factors which determine consumer choices, savings and investments”.[26] Education for peace must increasingly begin with far-reaching decisions on the part of individuals, families, communities and states. We are all responsible for the protection and care of the environment. This responsibility knows no boundaries. In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity it is important for everyone to be committed at his or her proper level, working to overcome the prevalence of particular interests. A special role in raising awareness and in formation belongs to the different groups present in civil society and to the non-governmental organizations which work with determination and generosity for the spread of ecological responsibility, responsibility which should be ever more deeply anchored in respect for “human ecology”.[emphases in original]

Did you catch that? "We are all responsible for the protection and care of the environment. This responsibility knows no boundaries." But don't worry -- before anyone can start fretting, the vaunted principle of subsidiarity comes to the rescue in the very next sentence.

BTW, footnote #26 from this excerpt refers to section 36 of JPII's _Centesimus annus_ (1991), which falls under a heading called "PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THE UNIVERSAL DESTINATION OF MATERIAL GOODS."

Cheers!

81 posted on 01/02/2010 3:25:37 AM PST by Poe White Trash (Wake up!)
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