Earth Month 2025 began, as it often does, with an email from Academic Affairs to all students reminding them of the late Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’. This letter implores humanity to, “care for our common home,” in a nuanced document almost one hundred pages long. Among other things, it calls for sustainable development, dialogue between religion and science and confronting the educational challenge of rethinking humanity’s relationship to the environment. But another message went out in Earth Month 2025, this one to recently...
