{"id":9717,"date":"2015-06-22T10:29:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T08:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/?p=9717"},"modified":"2015-06-22T10:29:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T08:29:54","slug":"pave-frans-onsker-a-stanse-fremskrittet-er-verden-klar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2015\/06\/pave-frans-onsker-a-stanse-fremskrittet-er-verden-klar\/","title":{"rendered":"Pave Frans \u00f8nsker \u00e5 stanse fremskrittet, er verden klar?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeg presenterer her enda et annerledes perspektiv p\u00e5 pave Frans’ encyklika<\/a>, skrev av Matthew Schmitz, assisterende redakt\u00f8r i First Things. Han skriver bl.a.:<\/p>\n

Laudato Si, Pope Francis\u2019 encyclical letter on the environment, is the work of a profoundly pessimistic man. John Paul II may have spoken of the \u201cculture of death\u201d and Benedict XVI of the \u201cdictatorship of relativism,\u201d but not since the publication of the Syllabus of Errors in the nineteenth century has a leader of the Catholic church issued a document so imbued with foreboding. Critics will seize on his dark tone, but Francis\u2019 letter offers a challenge worthy of serious consideration.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople no longer seem to believe in a happy future,\u201d he writes. \u201cThey no longer have blind trust in a better tomorrow based on the present state of the world and our technical abilities. There is a growing awareness that scientific and technological progress cannot be equated with the progress of humanity and history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite these portents, we \u201cdo not grasp the gravity of the challenges before us,\u201d nor the \u201cspiral of self-destruction which currently engulfs us.\u201d \u201cWe stand naked and exposed in the face of our ever-increasing power, lacking the wherewithal to control it.\u201d There are no clear solutions. \u201cHalfway measures simply delay the inevitable disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

… As evidence of the coming disaster, Francis adduces environmental calamities\u2014climate change, pollution, deforestation, monoculture, extinction \u2014 and yet he leaves no doubt that the crisis is fundamentally a spiritual one. Its source is our desire to master and manipulate nature, which leads us to use technology that ends up mastering us.<\/p>\n

Francis\u2019 broadsides against technology are loaded with quotations from \u201cThe End of the Modern World,\u201d a book written by the midcentury German priest Romano Guardini. Francis has a longstanding love of the German thinker who, like him, was the son of Italian \u00e9migr\u00e9s and studied chemistry. Drawing on Guardini, the pope denounces the excessive use of air-conditioning, broods over genetically modified crops, worries about automobiles \u201ccausing traffic congestion, raising the level of pollution, and consuming enormous quantities of non-renewable energy,\u201d and pans \u201cmegastructures\u201d that express \u201cthe spirit of a globalized technocracy.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeg presenterer her enda et annerledes perspektiv p\u00e5 pave Frans’ encyklika, skrev av Matthew Schmitz, assisterende redakt\u00f8r i First Things. Han skriver bl.a.: Laudato Si, Pope Francis\u2019 encyclical letter on the environment, is the work of a profoundly pessimistic man. John Paul II may have spoken of the \u201cculture of death\u201d and Benedict XVI of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generelt","category-katolsk","category-paven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9718,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}