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© 2020, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847111658 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737011655 developmentpath.This is fully inlinewithresearchonsustainabilityandethics ofconsumption.41 4. Wanted:SpiritualitynourishingSufficiencyandSustainable Life-styles Many in the scientific community acknowledge the enormous and epochal transformationandtransitionahead, andthat religiousandspiritual resources are needed to reach a sustainable development path.42 Spiritualities deepen awareness, respect, and care, and the ability to live a life within “life-giving limits”. Spiritual values can feed a cultural revolution to build a socially and ecologically caring economy. A “spirituality of interconnectedness”, as pro- motedbyPopeFrancisinLaudatosi’, isonehelpfulelement.Asoundspirituality canopenminds toseeandappreciate interconnectedness inourcommonoikos orhome,whichiscrucialtoprotecttheBiodiversityonourplanet.Goal15ofthe UnitedNationsSDGsof2015demandsthehaltingof lossesinbiodiversity(BD), socrucial forstability innatureandsocietiesaswellas thefutureof indigenous populations. The current dramatic loss of BD is due to a failure to respect in- terconnectedness, resulting ina lackof coherentpolicies to set and live appro- priate limits.Humanshave toseeand learntorespect the interdependenciesof everything with everything (LS 70; 137ff.) and implement coherent policies, systems,andpractices.Laudatosi’putsastrongfocusonbiodiversity(LS32ff.) andemphasisesthe“mutualconnectionsinanorderedsystem”witheverything “dependentononeanother”(LS42).Sociallife,ecology,andeconomyaredeeply intertwined. For Francis the “Cryof thePoor” and the “Cryof theEarth”, the social and ecological dimension, are deeply interwoven. Indigenous cultural communities liveat theprecariousplacewherebiologicalandculturaldiversity meetandoftenatthesameplacewherepreciousmineralresourcesarewaitingto be exploitedby thepowerful andwasteful. Also the cultural riches of peoples, 41 DavidCrocker,Consumption,Well-BeingandCapability, in:DavidCrocker /TobyLinden (ed.), Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship, Lanham- Maryland1998, pp.366–390; LucyReisch, Sustainable consumptionas a consumer policy issue, in: Lucy Reisch / Inge Ropke (ed.), The Ecological Economics of Consumption, Cheltenham-Norhampton2004,pp.175–189. 42 GaryGardner,EngagingReligionsToShapeWorldviews,in:WorldwatchInstitute(ed.),State of theWorld: Transforming Cultures fromConsumerism to Sustainability, London 2010, pp. 23–29; Dieter Gerten / Sigurd Bergmann, Religion in Environmental and Climate Change: Suffering, Values, Lifestyles, London-NewYork 2012; Gerhard Banse / Nelson L. Gordon/OliverParodi(ed.),SustainableDevelopment:TheCulturalPerspective:Concepts– Aspects – Examples, Berlin 2011; Lyn Thomas (ed.), Religion, Consumerism, and Su- stainability.ParadiseLost?,London2011. FranzGassner692 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0