Some may be wary of the new book TerraFutura (“FutureWorld”) by Italian environmental activist Carlo Petrini, which features a series of conversations with Pope Francis about “integral ecology” five years after Laudato Si’. In these interviews, the pope comments very truly on something that will help our culture and our planet far more than eco-activism: the importance of food and eating.
Laudato Si’ is Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical promoting an “ecological spirituality” to counteract the effects of global warming and a lack of biodiversity. It’s no wonder the earth-embracing tones of Laudato Si’ would be revisited in the current cultural climate, as it rages like the deadly West Coast wildfires with fears of climate change. But before the problems of mass consumerism and its effects can be addressed in any meaningful way, we must first address the way in which we consume as individuals, and food is a very good place to start.
Carlo Petrini is also a food activist, having founded the Slow Food Movement which promotes local food traditions to counteract the effects of fast food chains and egregious food waste. So, when the topic of food came up in one of his three recorded conversations with Pope Francis, it found some free rein and the pontiff said,
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