We should all read the Laudato Si'. This book is the vision of the Catholic Church on our current ecological crisis. Such an important book! We should all read it, and in order to not make the Pope a naked king, we should try to formulate the mistakes we found in his encyclical.



I see 7 errors in the Laudato Si', including the new man's dominion/stewardship the Pope is putting forward:



Error 1: The choice of Saint Francis of Assisi. This Saint died 6 centuries before Darwin's birth. Darwin proved us that the nature of the living beings are different from the nature of the non-living entities. The vision of Saint Francis wishing for us to see the bird and the moon as our sisters is just wrong, only the bird is.



Error 2: The vision of Earth an harmonious planet. Pope Francis sees the Earth as an harmonious entity, a living planet when only life on the planet is actually living. Pope talks of the cry of the Earth when it is the cry of the animals and plants we should be listening at. The Pope doesn't see it is the life which is the chance of our Earth and not earth the chance of life.



Error 3: The scientific followership. Pope Francis repeats arguments of science, nature is a circular process (like machine), ecosystem gives services (when it is in fact animals and plants, not the ecosystem), etc. The Pope is making a mistake to follow sciences and not to focus on its field : the philosophy of life (all life, not only human).



Error 4: To think the technological paradigm is new. The techno-logical paradigm is not new as it is only the logical of the universe (the universal laws) which are been used by human. Once more, if the Pope was focusing on the philosophy of life and on the philosophy of the technology, he would have avoid this mistake and depicted our world better.



Error 5: The refusal of the multiplication of the living beings. The verse Gn1:22 clearly specify to animal to multiply themselves, and not only to reproduce. However, the Pope Francis never talks of this multiplication but only of the conservation of biodiversity. This is a serious misconduct form the Pope to his church as the more you multiply life (and not only conserve), the more the ecological crisis will go down. The more life, the more human, the more development, the less ecological crisis.



Error 6: The reject of animism. The Pope still focuses on naturalism only. This is very clear when he talks of the water crisis. He doesn't see that life produces water like life produces soil (animism sees that the tree making the river and not the river making the tree). However we now know that animism like naturalism is not a religion but different ways to imagine our context (like mathematics uses different models as well) in order to progress in it. The Pope is still stuck in the anti-animism church war.



Error 7: The neurotic interpretation of the Gn 1:28. As Peter Singer said, the Pope propose to interpret the dominion request summarized in the Gn1:28 by the stewardship of nature. However, the Gn1:28 never talks of nature. It doesn't use this concept at all. The Gn 1:28 specify 3 very pertinent orders to men : 1) to multiply (exactly like animals) 2) to subdue the earth 3) to rule over the animal. This verse clearly sees that earth and living entities are different (like Darwin proved it) and that human should develop two different approaches to them (and obviously not use the concept of nature). This verse clearly specify a combat is going on between earth and life (if life multiply, it will compulsorily modify its context and have to conquer deserts and space). This verse clearly request human to take the side of animals into this fight to subdue earth. We are not in a nature concept. There is no idea of dominion of nature (as nature doesn't exist) but of combating the earth, to eat it and make it a soil, to multiply life, and to help life to conquer the planet.



The 7th errors is the most serious one. I am very surprised Peter Singer didn't even talked about it.



