The twin transition is reshaping European cities while intensifying digital, urban, and environmental
inequalities (Beck 1992). Unequal access to infrastructures, green innovation, and digital capital reinforces
territorial and social disparities, while platform-mediated sustainability narratives often reproduce hierarchies
of visibility and exclusion (Kitchin 2014; Vanolo 2014).
This paper examines, from an interdisciplinary perspective, how religious traditions may help rebalance these
asymmetries. The principles of the Social Doctrine of the Church (Francis 2015) together with religious
environmental ethics (Grim & Tucker 2014) offer ethical criteria and counter-narratives capable of challenging
dominant digital rhetorics of transition.
Combining a qualitative analysis of digital sustainability narratives with a comparative reinterpretation of
ethical-religious principles, the paper argues that integral ecology can function as a cultural and normative
corrective. In this perspective, the twin transition can be reframed as a more inclusive process grounded in
equity, care, and shared responsibility (Carvalho 2010; Núñez 2018)