{"id":30629,"date":"2018-09-04T09:25:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T09:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=30629"},"modified":"2018-09-04T09:25:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T09:25:52","slug":"our-throwaway-culture-is-threatening-human-society-says-cardinal-tagle-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/09\/04\/our-throwaway-culture-is-threatening-human-society-says-cardinal-tagle-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Our \u201cthrowaway culture\u201d is threatening human society says Cardinal Tagle &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Our \u201cthrowaway culture\u201d is threatening human society says Cardinal Tagle<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In his opening speech at the World Meeting of Families 2018 in Dublin Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines, brought together Pope Francis\u2019s documents on the care of creation <em>(Laudato Si<\/em>\u2019) and family and relationships (<em>Amoris Laetitia<\/em>). He spoke in the context of a society that largely considers human beings to be a commodity and have a \u201csell by\u201d date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tagle explained that the roots of the concept often used by Pope Francis of a \u201cthrowaway culture\u201d go back in history and the economic mindset. After the Great Depression of 1929, the cardinal said that designers &#8211; especially in the automobile sector &#8211; began to adopt the concept of \u201cobsolescence.\u201d Buying a new car even if your old one still functioned was no longer considered wasteful but almost a patriotic duty to help the country&#8217;s economy. This greatly boosted the automobile industry and the concept then spread to other sectors. Products were designed to be replaced prematurely, either because they were outmoded by technology or considered out of fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By the 1960s, throwing away something that was no longer wanted was not viewed as wasteful but \u201csomething beautiful.\u201d This concept has permeated our entire society, with many not even being aware of it. Tagle pointed out that many people today never knew a world where obsolescence did not exist. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Obsolescence has become culturally accepted by consumers,\u201d the Cardinal said. People are no longer satisfied with what they have but encouraged to keep buying \u201cby making them feel that what they have is already obsolete.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By the \u201980s and \u201990s, the consequences of a throwaway society in terms of the environment were beginning to be felt fully as mountains of waste accumulated and the link was made between planned obsolescence and ecological problems. The Vatican has attempted to address this issue in \u201c<em>Laudato Si<\/em>\u201d by reviewing the business model on which obsolescence was built. \u201cWe should not choose between the environment and human beings, we need to take care of both by reviewing our mentality and culture,\u201d Tagle stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He then went on to say that this underlying behaviour in society has serious consequences. \u201cThe throwaway attitude moved from the economy to culture. It has influenced mindsets, values, priorities and ways at looking at creation and at human beings,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Cardinal explained that among the victims of a throwaway culture are \u201chuman lives, human persons, beginning with the family.\u201d He joked that perhaps marriage certificates should have a Best By date on them, as people might even consider their spouses obsolete.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cMany people talk about <em>Amoris Laetitia<\/em> as an exhortation on the family. That is not wrong, but it\u2019s incomplete,\u201d Tagle continued, \u201cit\u2019s about love &#8211; love in the family.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In order to move beyond a culture where human beings can be discarded at will, Tagle said that it\u2019s necessary to return to the roots of Christian culture, which is the human person and its relationships. \u201cWe should get out of the trap of individualism, which will lead us to throw away anything or anyone that is not connected with us,\u201d the cardinal said. \u201cWe are connected persons, to God, to one another, to society, to the whole of creation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tagle observed that many people who are considered not useful or of low status are treated without dignity or respect and left on the outskirts of society. He said that in his writings, the Pope identified among those people who may be considered disposable &#8211; unborn children, the elderly, people with disabilities, prisoners, victims of human trafficking, migrants and refugees, minorities etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Drawing on the pope\u2019s call for \u201cspiritual and personal conversion\u201d by delving into \u201cthe roots of our spirituality and the witness of the families,\u201d Tagle called participants at WMOF 2018 to take to heart the ideas revealed in Francis\u2019s documents and reject a culture where people can simply be disposable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cNow we understand what Pope Francis is talking about: if there is something that should be thrown away it\u2019s the throwaway culture,\u201d Tagle concluded. That is what many people are now realising, especially when they see its effect on our common home, our planet.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our \u201cthrowaway culture\u201d is threatening human society says Cardinal Tagle &nbsp; In his opening speech at the World Meeting of Families 2018 in Dublin Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines, brought together Pope Francis\u2019s documents on the care of creation (Laudato Si\u2019) and family and relationships (Amoris Laetitia). 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