Evolving Leadership for Collective Wellbeing: Lessons for Implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0000000000000
Published: 2020-10-06T21:12:40+00:00

Human beings and material objects no longer extend a friendly hand to one another; the relationship has become confrontational. This has made it easy to accept the idea of infinite or unlimited growth, which proves so attractive to economists, financiers and experts in technology. It is based on the lie that there is an infinite supply of the earth’s goods, and this leads to the planet being squeezed dry beyond every limit. (para. 106)

In Francis’ view, this reality has harmed the quality of both the environment and human life itself, and “there is a breakdown in the moral order that alone can guarantee fairness in the use of natural resources, peaceful co-existence between human beings, and the physical and spiritual well-being of all” (Vigini, 2016, pp. xii–xiii).

Consequently, by advancing a reconsideration of human relationship that is inextricably linked to the environmental choices humanity must make in order to achieve a more meaningful and life-affirming sense of human relationality, Francis (2015a) articulated a worldview that he called an “integral ecology” (para. 11). For Francis,

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