PAOLO PELUFFO: IN THE POST COVID RECONSTRUCTION STAGE STARTING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE

We propose the interview of the CNEL Secretary General to the broadcast "Traveling in the Church of Francesco" by Rai Vaticano broadcast on Rai1 on Sunday 26 July. Peluffo was interviewed by Director Massimo Milone on the topicality of the encyclical Laudato Si and on post-Covid-19 scenarios.

Q. We find ourselves in a different society, on what basis to build?

A. Meanwhile on responsibility. The responsibility of knowledge and civil commitment that unites all the countries of the world in front of something unknown. Something unknown because nobody imagined a pandemic that would have affected the economic model on which the growth of the last twenty years has been created. Globalization and transport, movement, tourist exchange, exchange of people. I earn little but I also spend little to move and exercise my freedoms. This Disneyland model, say, is blown. Today there is a sort of apparent calm regarding finance that is guaranteed by European central banks. But these months when all the countries in the world had to imagine a new system must start being aware that all that level of GDP growth that arose from pre-existent model of economy can be preserved. And therefore we must return to the reality of production, to the reality of responsibility in communities.

Q. Here, Pope Francis asks for something more, speaks of a new Humanism to be built.

A. Meanwhile, Pope Francis, 5 years ago, had foreseen the need to a change of spiritual perspective by rulers all over the world in the frame of global responsibility. Among other things, in the encyclical Laudato Sì, I also see the end of the dialectic model, that is, the need to polarize against one another as a simplification mechanism for public debate. But, instead, there was the need for a strong cohesion even between completely divergent forces of inspiration because the problem is increasingly common and it is not always not only of humanity but also of living beings and the environment, of the complex nature that are our overall responsibility. This will mean that we will be able to afford less and less war, trade conflicts, sanctions between countries, but that we will have to go more and more towards a shared model.

Q. September, autumn, restart: what is the keyword?

A. The keyword is to start working again as much as possible; there will be a difficult time but young people have more resources than anyone else because they were born and raised in the age of mobility and therefore they will know how to adapt before others to the paradigm shift that will involve them but will also open up opportunities for them.