Papal encyclical on the environment: Laudato Si

[Vanellus]

I've been asked to read this for a non Catholic discussion group. I wondered if there were any here who are familiar with and what they think about it.

Link added below:

https://www.vatican.va/content/dam/...rancesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si_en.pdf

 

[Vanellus]

This is an interesting quote from para 80:
"Creating a world in need of development, God in some way sought to limit himself in such a way that many of the things we think of as evils, dangers or sources of suffering, are in reality part of the pains of childbirth which he uses to draw us into the act of cooperation with the Creator"