Since the beginning of the year of faith, Pope Benedict XVI has been giving some masterful teachings on faith, and many of them tie in with environmental themes. Last week he raised the question of whether faith still made sense in a world of technology and science: Does faith still make sense in a world […]
Tag: technology
Technology, Silence and the Pedagogy of Farming
After the historic speech in Germany and his mention of the environmental movement as one example of a challenge to the bunker of relativism, Pope Benedict XVI continues to make reference to the environment. In a speech to the Carthusian monks in southern Italy, he gave an interesting diagnostic of our world, where technology and […]
Benedict XVI: “revise our approach to nature”
Pope Benedict XVI gave an important address on environmental matters to the diplomats of 6 countries: Moldavia, Equatorial Guinea, Belize, the Arab Republic of Syria, Ghana and New Zealand. A summary article can be found in CNA here, highlighting the references to the nuclear disaster in Japan and a call for ‘clean energy’. In the full […]
Technology and Palm Sunday
Pope Benedict XVI has an interesting reflection on technology on his homily for Palm Sunday this year. You can read it in full here. He has spoken before on this issue. Below the most relevant points: All the inventions of the human spirit are ultimately an effort to gain wings so as to rise to the […]
Cancun conclusions
Here is a link to an article by Roger Pielke Jr. on the Cancun climate conference. For him its the same old, same old… and I think he’s right on this one. While I agree in the diagnosis of the situation I would differ slightly on the proposed solutions. Certainly technology has a role to […]
Animal camera
In some interesting studies that mix technology and nature new discoveries are being made. One study that places cameras on albatrosses shows how they find their food amidst apparently wide stretches of barren ocean: by following Killer whales. Some more details and other impressive albatross pictures can be seen here. Another different study explains why […]