What's a technocratic paradigm?

Pope Francis's 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si', has done more than maybe any other document to set the tone and agenda for his pontificate. Here we introduce and review Laudato Si' and review its key claims, including especially the claim the we today are in the thrall of a "technocratic paradigm" - a way of seeing that grants the most power to those with technical skills. Pope Francis holds that his limited way of seeing underlies both our unsustainable exploitation of natural resources and our failure to recognize and respect the dignity of all.

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