A timely message for everyone about the importance of integral ecology to the future

Table of Contents

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Preface

Dialogues for the Earth

By Domenico Pompili, Bishop of Rieti, Italy

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Part One

Three Dialogues

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Introduction

By Carlo Petrini

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Dialogue from May 30, 2018

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Dialogue from July 2, 2019

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Dialogue from July 9, 2020

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Part Two

Five Themes

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Biodiversity

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Biodiversity

By Carlo Petrini

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Querida Amazonia

(from the Apostolic Exhortation following the Synod of Bishops QUERIDA AMAZONIA by His Holiness Pope

Francis, spoken to the people of God and of all people of good will, Rome, February 2, 2020.)

By Pope Francis

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Economy

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Economy

By Carlo Petrini

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Evangelii gaudium

(from the Apostolic Exhortation following the Synod of Bishops QUERIDA AMAZONIA by His Holiness Pope

Francis, spoken to the bishops, presbyteries and deacons, to those who are ordained and to those who are faithful

laymen, in the announcement of the Gospel of today, Rome, November 24, 2013.)

By Pope Francis

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Letter from His Holiness Pope Francis to the popular movements

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Migrations

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Migrations

By Carlo Petrini

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It is not only about Immigrants (message from His Holiness Pope Francis for the 105th World Day of

Refugees and Migrants 2019, September 29, 2019.)

By Pope Francis

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Education

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Education

By Carlo Petrini

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An encounter with students and with the academic world (Bologna, October 1, 2017.)

By Pope Francis

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Message from the Holy Father for the launching of the Educational Pact (Vatican, September 12, 2019.)

By Pope Francis

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Community

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Community

By Carlo Petrini

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(Re)Thinking Europe (October 28, 2017.)

By Pope Francis

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Message by Pope Francis at the II Forum of the Laudato si’ Community (Amatrice, July 6, 2019.)

By Pope Francis

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Acknowledgements

Carlo Petrini is an Italian activist, journalist, author, and founder of Slow Food International. He is the author of six books, including Slow Food Revolution: A New Culture for Eating and Living and Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities. He has received numerous awards, including the Sicco Mansholt Prize (Netherlands), the Eckart Witzigmann Prize (Germany), and he was named one of Time magazine’s one hundred most influential people of the year. He lives in Italy.