"I was very impressed that Gaël Giraud has reconstructed the way in which historically GDP has established itself as the only parameter for judging the health of a nation's economy. He states that this happened during the season of Nazism and that the reference point was the arms industry: the GDP has a "war" origin, we could say. So much so that, for this reason, the work of women housewives has never been counted: because their efforts do not serve the war". Pope Francis writes this in the preface to a book, "The Taste to Change", written by Jesuit Gaël Giraud and gastronome Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food. "In the face of the news that reaches us - droughts, environmental disasters, forced migrations because of the climate - we cannot remain indifferent," Bergoglio continued, "We would be accomplices in the destruction of the beauty that God wanted to give us in the creation that surrounds us. Let's face it: the reckless economic development to which we have bent is causing climate imbalances that are weighing on the shoulders of the poorest, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. How can we close the doors to those who are fleeing, and will flee, unsustainable environmental situations, direct consequences of our inordinate consumerism"?
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