Laudato Si at 5: Ecological Citizenship and Climate Justice in times of Covid-19
Fordham Law School – Zoom Webinar
Thursday, June 18, 2020 / 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | program
This event is free and open to the public.
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 from a moral, economic, and legal perspective.
Speakers:
Kit Kennedy, Director, Energy & Transportation 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:
Rabbi Burt Visotzky, Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies and Director, Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue, Jewish Theological Seminary
Endy Moraes, Director of Fordham’s Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer’s Work.
Conveners:
Fordham’s Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer’s Work
Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary
Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue, Jewish Theological Seminary