‘Today we are deep in a civilisation which causes extreme want, dehumanises and attacks the human family: it excludes and impoverishes people and divides the world into winners and losers. Our civilisation is very sick. There is more wealth on Earth, but also more injustice. Every day 25,000 people die of hunger. Desertification threatens the lives of 1,200 million people in about hundred different countries. Without batting an eyelid, we carry on in this crazy, shameless way, that is unjust, cruel, contemptuous and insulting. Directly or indirectly, hunger, weapons, forced migrations through lack of land, water or soil, result in death. None of this belongs to the order of nature. The causes are historical. And it is important to recognise that today the fundamental cause is capitalism.’ Jon Sobrino