BIOMA Institute researchers publish the book "Caring for the Wounded Earth".

"In recent decades, concern for the environment has grown steadily, a shared space in which nature and the human are deeply intertwined, constituting what we now call the environment." With this reflection, the book invites us to read the book Caring for the wounded Earth. The value and fragility of natureof Jordi Puig y Miguel Pérez de Labordaresearchers from the BIOMA Institute.

"The book arises as an appreciation for the value of nature - present in an eminent way in human beings - and a concern for its fragility; and as an attempt to build bridges between two fields that too often appear to be at odds: Christianity and environmentalism," they say. "Underlining the many values shared by both financial aid spheres financial aid to depolarize reflection on these issues, and makes it easier to focus on the joy of choosing to care for the world, natural and human, which - for the believer - is a reflection of divine perfections," they add.

The work also points to the need and search for an inner transformation, to be able to look more openly and attentively at the depth that dwells in nature, and to live in a way that is coherent with the desire to care for the environment and the people who inhabit it, especially the most vulnerable and forgotten. This is not easy, especially in our world, which tends to exaggerate self-interest and easily loses sight of the common good. "The three dimensions of sustainable development that are usually pointed out (economic, social and environmental) are intertwined in the book from a fourth one: the staff, that is, the good living of the person himself and the possible healing of the ills that beset him, precisely from the care of the natural and human," say the authors.

Caring for the wounded Earth is therefore not only an environmental duty, but also an opportunity to heal our own wounds as individuals and as a society. Both researchers stress the need to recover an ecological sensitivity that recognizes the interdependence of all forms of life, as opposed to a fragmented vision that has contributed, in parallel, to environmental degradation and the neglect of the financial aid due to those most in need, manifestations of the same loss of human wholeness, whose recovery offers a reason for meeting and cooperation between believers and non-believers.

With this publication, the authors of the BIOMA Institute reinforce their commitment to scientificknowledge dissemination and dialogue among knowledge to face the great socio-environmental challenges of the 21st century. The work is presented as an invitation to look at the world with gratitude, respect and a sense of co-responsibility, remembering that caring for the Earth is, in the last written request, a call of love, to which it is only fair to respond to every precious and fragile being, natural and human.