La espiritualidad de una ecología integral

Spirituality in an ecological key raises the urgency of giving a response from the human spiritual dimension to the challenges that the environmental crisis of today's world continually throws up. To this end, it contrasts an integral ecology, of purely humanistic, spiritual and cultural roots, with an ecology of disaster, of purely technological and geoengineering roots. In contrast to an ecology of disaster focused on short-term reactions that give primacy to technical geoengineering solutions, integral ecology focuses on the current challenges of the relationship between human beings and nature by exploring its spiritual roots, questioning the consumerist lifestyle and identifying the underlying political and ideological responsibilities. To do so, it takes up the teachings of Pope Francis in his magisterium on this problem and relates it to the voices of other thinkers, theologians and humanists. Through this reflection it becomes evident that, although technical solutions are necessary in the face of certain emergencies, a spiritual change in the attitude of human beings towards nature is needed. The ecology of disaster is based on techno-optimism that seeks to reduce pollution and promote food industrialization without questioning the habits of the first world. Integral ecology, on the contrary, seeks to establish the social priorities that make it possible to live in a less polluted, less noisy and more friendly world with people, their spiritual values and their relationship with the environment. This is where the ecological spirituality of good living is inserted, which seeks to reconstruct the creatural relationship of human beings with the earth, air, water and all living beings.