Studies on environmental attitudes consistently reveal a striking gap: most people express concern about ecological collapse, yet fewer than one in five report making significant lifestyle changes in response. Information alone does not move people. That finding, replicated across behavioral science research, points to something St. John Paul II named decades before the data caught up — that the ecological crisis is, at its root, a summons to profound interior conversion. Not a policy adjustment. A transformation of the self. While structural reform is crucial, this lecture emphasizes the personal and community dimensions of ecological conversion, focusing on spiritual and moral transformation. But here is what Laudato Si' insists with equal force: structural change without interior change is hollow. Pope Francis calls this ecological conversion — a transformation of hearts and minds toward greater love of God, each other, and creation. It begins, specifically, with recognition. You must first acknowledge your own contribution to the crisis, through action or inaction, before any outward change becomes sustainable. Francis highlights the importance of community initiatives and personal practices that foster ecological awareness and action, drawing on Bernard Lonergan's framework of conversion. Ecological conversion, in this reading, integrates nature with spirit, facts with values, and science with conscience. It is not sentiment. It is a reorientation of the entire person. The process moves through repentance, prayer, and sacrament, then outward into concrete actions respectful of creation. Crucially, Alan, Francis insists this cannot remain private. Community conversion is essential alongside personal conversion — cooperative networks, not isolated individual gestures. This reorientation fosters gratitude, generosity, and a loving awareness of universal communion, illustrated by stories of individuals and communities who have undergone ecological conversion. It fosters creativity, enthusiasm in resolving problems, and responsibility grounded in faith. Wonder matters here, Alan. Recovering a contemplative capacity to encounter nature — what the encyclical calls the recovery of a religious vision of God's creation — is not nostalgia. It is the affective foundation without which sobriety and humility remain abstract ideals rather than lived realities. The consumerist vision of the good life rests on accumulation. Ecological conversion directly challenges that premise — not by demanding austerity, but by proposing a richer account of human flourishing. Less consumption, more communion. Less extraction, more encounter. In 2021, Pope Francis launched the Laudato Si' Action Platform, a seven-year journey toward sustainability, precisely because conversion is prolonged work, not a single moment. Alan, the core insight to carry forward is this: systemic change is impossible without an internal, spiritual transformation that redefines what it means to live a good life. The planet does not need better policies from unchanged people. It needs changed people who then build better policies.