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This article examines the evolution and implications of Artificial Intelligence - henceforth AI - in terms of social, environmental, and institutional sustainability, beginning with the first financial investment in 1956 for a Dartmouth conference, which is recognized as the formal birth of AI. It discusses the environmental issues associated with rare earth mining and the energy and water resources required by AI. The article criticizes the centralization of the power of AI in the hands of a few global entities, suggesting instead that we consider personal data as collective property, a new collective power, for an equitable distribution of both the social and environmental benefits of AI. Finally, it proposes the creation of new forms of power in government and intermediary organizations for managing personal digital data as a collective good. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the next thirty years 200 million human beings will be in constant, invisible movement around the planet. Pandemics, thirst, famines due to climate change, or oppression drive physical movement as well as the immaterial movement of ideas. There is a clash of opposing views in Europe: one focuses on the well-being of human beings as worthy of the right to individual and collective development; the other seeks to seize territory, which is a singular resource. A brief examination of the facts from 2022 leads to focusing on the democratic method that, with recognized institutions, makes up the indistinct movement following a course of cultural ecology from Heraclitus to the papal lectio. Pope Francis’ Encyclical Fratelli tutti (FT) creates the prospect of “open fraternity” (FT n. 1) to “recognize, appreciate, and love every person” (FT n. 1). With a surprise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the drama of the war scenarios present in todays world and from the difficulty of reaching a peace agreement, this contribution begins the reflection with terminological clarification in order to outline some pathways to sustainable peace education. The terminological clarification has led to the awareness that a systemic approach is essential to overcome war, a result of interweaving of causes. The author brings into dialogue the social doctrine of the Catholic Church with various instances of contemporary culture by adopting the systemic perspective of Fritjof Capra. This approach has made it possible to outline a pathway to peace education by focusing on the need to develop a systemic vision of life, to be able to assume conflict as a possibility for growth, in the logic of a global educational pact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Economics, from the Greek oikosnomos, means managing and taking care of the household, which is understood as one's own home and everyone's home, the planet. Economics and ecology have the same root. Laudato sì gives us a specific way of reading this assonance: We cannot hear the cry of the poor without hearing the cry of the earth; they are the same cry. Finance is an area in which ecology and economics can come back into harmony. Financial investments made with environmental and social sustainability and governance criteria can contribute to spreading practices among companies and States that are non-predatory, but rather in harmony with the creation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from an overview of global sensitivity on the topics of sustainability and human responsibility for the environment, the article develops a pedagogical reflection linked to the Agenda of 2030 goals. This is an education that implies moving towards personal relationships, towards a way of learning that is at once a service and building communities. The center of interest is still learning, but in a dynamic of community service, of interdisciplinary participation, interaction, and reciprocity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Author's first hand testimony deepens the theme of the meaning of work as a vocation and as an expression of human dignity, participating in God's creation, promoting oneself as well as society. This personal story is particularly significant if we consider the context in which the author works: Caserta, a land where waste management is continually at emergency level, and where his father was killed by the camorra. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article takes its starting point from the invitation to listen to the cry of the earth, and to ask ourselves how to inhabit our common home in such a way as to guarantee its future. It then develops a series of reflections on consumption and sustainability. The argument particularly touches on food consumption and on concrete indications for combining the needs of consumers health with those of the sustainability of the planet. A fundamental concept needed to initiate practices of care for our common home is that of educating to a new style of life and sobriety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]