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The economical thought at Caritas in veritate
with Luigino Bruni
THE ECOLOGY IN THE ENCYCLICAL
The ecology in the encyclical, in my opinion,
I would express it this way,
is the ecology of the custodian.
We know that the first ecological imagine
of the Bible is the genesis,
which it tells us, in the first chapters,
chapter one, but also chapter two,
this big imagine of a creation entrusted to
to the man and then to the woman,
to guard it.
And this is very nice,
this Jewish verb guard,
which I translate as guard,
it’s interesting that the same verb
which we find some sentences after,
in the genesis, when Caino returns
from the fields and says,
in front of the question of God
“where is your brother?”,
He answers “I’m maybe the custodian of my brother?”.
That means, what’s the idea which lies behind?
That, if you aren't custodian of the brother,
you are not even custodian of the earth,
that means, the custodian is only one.
Or you are custodian the one of the others
and then we may take care of the earth,
or we are assassins of the other and of the environment.
There exists a custodian, which is
a taking care or I take care of the other,
of the earth, of the relations or
I don’t take care of this things.
So there is this united vision,
that means, there is a strong anthropology
behind the ecology of the Bible,
ecology as a treatment,
like the human ecology,
certainly has the environment as fundamental dimension
but the other too.
I mean the Encyclical and all the biblical humanism
it never sees the earth disconnected
from the other, that means
the earth is populated by animals,
but by people, so if I’m not custodian
of the brother, I’m neither custodian of the earth.
I would say this joke about the ecology,
as a place of custodian.