In 2019, the United Nations published their Global Resource Outlook which concluded that “90% of biodiversity loss is caused by resource extraction and processing.”
This includes human activities like habitat destruction for agriculture and mining and the over-consumption of natural resources like non-renewable energy and fishing stock.
“We need to grow in the conviction” Pope Francis says, “that a decrease in the pace of production and consumption can at times give rise to another form of progress and development” (LS 191).
In the second episode of ‘Jubilee for the Earth’, two members of the Columban team for justice, peace, and ecology discuss the urgent need to reimagine how our economy operates and to redefine what human flourishing looks like.