2] He spoke in similar terms to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations about the potential for an “ecological catastrophe under the effective explosion of industrial civilization”, and stressed “the urgent need for a radical change in the conduct of humanity”, inasmuch as “the most extraordinary scientific advances, the most amazing technical abilities, the most astonishing economic growth, unless they are accompanied by authentic social and moral progress, will definitively turn against man”.[
2] Apud sedem consociationis compendiatis litteris FAO appellatae etiam est effatus, “ex effectibus industriae cultus [...] verum damnum oriri posse oecologicum”, quandoquidem palam significabat “hominum agendi modum necessario instanterque mutari funditus debere”, cum “perquam mirae scientiae progressiones, mirifica technicae inventa, extraordinaria oeconomica incrementa, nisi cum vero sociali moralique progressu coniungeretur, verterent tandem adversus hominem”.[vatican.va vatican.va