Plastic Pollution, Theological Ethics, and the Call of Laudato Si' - Paperback

by Andrea Vicini (Editor), Philip J. Landrigan (Editor), Karen Bullock (Editor)

The book combines a state-of-the-art review of current knowledge of plastics' harms to human health and the global environment with an exploration of the social consequences and the ethical foundations of the plastics crisis. The book gathers contributions of scientists, ethicists, economists, policy makers, and religious leaders. The plastics crisis is more than an environmental threat, and like climate change, air pollution, biodiversity loss, and escalating inequality, it is also a social and ethical challenge. It is a crisis that demands solutions that are based on the best science but that are also just and ethically sound.

Author Biography

Andrea Vicini, SJ, PhD, is Chairperson, Michael P. Walsh Professor of Bioethics, and Professor of Theological Ethics in the Theology Department at Boston College. He also holds an MD from the University of Bologna and an STD from the Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Southern Italy in Naples.



Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, FAAP, is Director of the Global Public Health and the Common Good program and Director of the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health at Boston College.



Karen Bullock, PhD, LICSW, FGSA, APHSW-C, is the Louise McMahon Ahearn Endowed Professor in the Boston College School of Social Work and in the Global Public Health and the Common Good program She is also a John A. Hartford Faculty Scholar.