b'CONCLUSIONThe publication of Laudato si offers a unique opportunity to scale up and move forward the work to link cosmology and ecology by providing a renewed moral force and shared ethical commitment regarding environmental issues, especially climate change. 4In particular, Laudato si highlights the fact that humans have a special kinship with non-human nature and are responsible for its continuity for future generations. The fl ourishing of Earth, our common home, may well depend on how humans heed Pope Franciss call to ecological conversion. The ability of Laudato si to help us see ourselves as part of an earth community birthed out of deep time is a major step in this direction (LS 5, 217,21920). 5This article is an excerpt from Cosmology and EcologyMary Evelyn Tucker (PhD, Columbia in Laudato si, by Mary Evelyn Tucker and JohnUniversity) and John Grim (PhD, Fordham Grim, in All Creation Is Connected, edited by DanielUniversity) have appointments in the Yale R. DiLeo (Winona, MN: Anselm Academic, 2018),School of Forestry and Environmental 64-79. Copyright2018 by Anselm Academic.Studies as well as the Divinity School and All rights reserved. www.anselmacademic.org. the Department of Religious Studies.1. Teilhard de Chardin, The Human Phenomenon.2. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Hymn of the Universe (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), 109.3. Thomas Berry, Reinventing the Human at the Species Level, in The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth, ed. M. E. Tucker and J. Grim (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2009), 123.4. This is also the work of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University, http://fore.yale.edu.5. It is important to highlight Franciss acknowledgment that his call for ecological conversion was fi rst made by Pope John Paull II. See LS footnote 5, citing Catechesis, January 17, 2001.22 AspireVolume 1//Winter 2020 Subscribe today!smp.org/aspire'