Official Warns Against Idolizing Nature

Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said this last Friday

"Nature is for the human person and the human person is for God," Cardinal Martino said. "In considering the problems associated with climate change, one must look to the social doctrine of the Church," which "neither supports the absolutization of nature, nor the reduction of nature to a mere instrument."

"Nature is not an absolute, but a wealth that is placed in the person's responsible and prudent hands," he added.

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It was good to read this article.

Though climate change is an issue at the moment (whether liegitimatley or not is another matter) it is worth reminding that it is not the greatest and most important issue in our society. This is true of all things in a sense.

There is an underlying and sinister feel to the media's current obsession with climate change.

I do find, however, a paradox in climate change. Environmentalists believe that we are the ultimate cause of problems in the world and thus are the ultimate beings on earth, i.e: we cause problems and we are in charge of solving them because a frog cannot.

But at the same time they believe that we are simply animals and have no special place (except to save other animals).

Its kind of a twisted mirroring of the incarnation.