Jana Pawła II koncepcja „ekologii ludzkiej” kluczem do rozwiązania kryzysu ekologicznego

Abstract

Kościół katolicki zawsze stał na stanowisku, że droga do rozwiązania „problemu ekologicznego” choć wiedzie przez naukę, technikę, ekonomię i politykę, jednak nie może zatrzymać się tylko na tych dziedzinach. Decydującą rolę w kształtowaniu zachowań proekologicznych odgrywa wszystko to, co ogólnie określamy jako humanistyczny aspekt ochrony przyrody. Ten aspekt, na który ciągle w swym nauczaniu kładł nacisk Jan Paweł II, tworzy właściwa hierarchia wartości, zakorzeniona w danej społeczności, która decyduje o określonej postawie człowieka wobec przyrody. Jana Pawła II koncepcja „ekologii ludzkiej”, twórczo rozwijana przez Benedykta XVI, powinna być bezcennym drogowskazem w rozwiązywaniu groźnego dla współczesnego świata kryzysu ekologicznego.

In June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro a United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) is planned. The objectives of the upcoming Conference include, as the organizers have announced, renewing political obligations in the field of sustainable development, evaluation of progress and taking a stance on arising challenges. The topics of the planned UN conference revolving around the idea of sustainable development have been raised for many years in the teaching of the Catholic church in the writing and speeches of its Popes. The Catholic church’s standing has always been the road to solving “the environmental problem”, although it leads through science, technology, economy and politics, cannot simply include these areas only. The key role in shaping pro-ecological behaviours belongs to everything that we generally refer to as the humanistic aspect of nature conservation. This aspect, underlined repeatedly in the teaching of John Paul II, consists of a relevant hierarchy of values, rooted in each community that decides on given attitudes of man towards nature. Qis paper presents the main ecological themes, with the focus on those oriented towards the now fashionable issue of sustainable development, grounded in the teaching of John Paul II. The Pope’s suggestions regarding the solution to the environmental crisis involve many themes that are pioneer in relation to those of the previous heads of the Holy See. However, in order to present the continuity of teaching by the Church in the area of interest, the main concepts of the environmental message of John Paul II’s predecessor, Pope Paul VI, are remembered. The environmental solutions according to John Paul II are continued by Pope Benedict XVI, therefore the last part of this paper includes the vision of the human-environment relationship present in the teaching of the current Pope.