Where is Structural Sin in Laudato Si’? ... In Laudato Si’ , Pope Francis laments this very alienation of humankind from the natural world, in both our intellectual understanding and our everyday lives: “Human beings and material objects no longer extend a friendly hand to one another; the relationship has become confrontational” (no. 106). This alienation, according to Francis, involves not only the mistreatment of the natural world, but in a sense the denial of our true being: When we speak of the “environment”, what we really mean is a relationship existing between nature and the society which lives in it. Nature cannot be regarded as something separate from ourselves or as a mere setting in which we live. We are part of nature, included in it and thus in constant interaction with it. (no. 139) [https://www.catholicmoraltheology.com/p/where-is-structural-sin-in-laudato-si] Google AI: The specific philosophical concept of human alienation—including estrangement from the na...