Laudato Si at 5: Climate Justice and Ecological Citizenship in times of COVID-19 & Racial Injustice

Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home reaches its fifth anniversary, amid a pandemic which has the power to transform ways of working, commuting, and connecting. It also reveals the deep inequities in our society, including environmental injustice that harms human health. In this dialogue, we will explore the ecological crisis in times of COVID-19 and racial discrimination from a moral, economic, and legal perspective.

Speakers:

Kit Kennedy, Senior Director, Climate and Clean Energy Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council
Karenna Gore, Director, Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary
John Mundell, President/Senior Environmental Consultant at Mundell & Associates, Inc.
Simone Borg, Law Professor and Head of the Department of Environmental Law and Resources Law at the University of Malta School of Law.

Moderators:

Endy Moraes, Director of Fordham’s Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyer’s Work.
Rabbi Burt Visotzky, Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies and Director, Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue, Jewish Theological Seminary

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