Climate Change, Catholic Social Teaching, and Human Rights

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" Climate Change, Catholic Social Teaching, and Human Rights "
Richard W. Miller

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1072939
Doc. No	:	LA116568
Call No	:	‭10.30965/23642807-00601011‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Richard W. Miller
Title & Author	:	Climate Change, Catholic Social Teaching, and Human Rights [Article]\ Richard W. Miller
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill \| Schöningh
Title of Periodical	:	Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	6/1
Page No	:	171–192
Abstract	:	The development of human rights thinking in the United Nations and the Catholic Church has operated on a separate track from the development of thinking regarding environmental concerns. This paper traces this historical divergence and some factors contributing to this divergence. It argues that climate stability is the most pressing earth system problem and not only should not be neglected by human rights thinkers (as in Catholic circles) or actively resisted in human rights circles (as argued by a prominent academic human rights lawyer); rather, a stable climate system should be considered a basic human right. The development of human rights thinking in the United Nations and the Catholic Church has operated on a separate track from the development of thinking regarding environmental concerns. This paper traces this historical divergence and some factors contributing to this divergence. It argues that climate stability is the most pressing earth system problem and not only should not be neglected by human rights thinkers (as in Catholic circles) or actively resisted in human rights circles (as argued by a prominent academic human rights lawyer); rather, a stable climate system should be considered a basic human right. The development of human rights thinking in the United Nations and the Catholic Church has operated on a separate track from the development of thinking regarding environmental concerns. This paper traces this historical divergence and some factors contributing to this divergence. It argues that climate stability is the most pressing earth system problem and not only should not be neglected by human rights thinkers (as in Catholic circles) or actively resisted in human rights circles (as argued by a prominent academic human rights lawyer); rather, a stable climate system should be considered a basic human right. The development of human rights thinking in the United Nations and the Catholic Church has operated on a separate track from the development of thinking regarding environmental concerns. This paper traces this historical divergence and some factors contributing to this divergence. It argues that climate stability is the most pressing earth system problem and not only should not be neglected by human rights thinkers (as in Catholic circles) or actively resisted in human rights circles (as argued by a prominent academic human rights lawyer); rather, a stable climate system should be considered a basic human right.
Descriptor	:	anthropocene
Descriptor	:	catholic social teaching
Descriptor	:	Christianity
Descriptor	:	climate change
Descriptor	:	ecology
Descriptor	:	human rights
Location & Call number	:	‭10.30965/23642807-00601011‬