It is WE who do not have the authority to endanger air, water or the very earth needed by our neighbors here and now, and by future generations. God made us caretakers in Genesis, It was His first commandment, along with "Be fruitful and multiply."
Well, I read: “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth; and SUBDUE it.” (emphasis is mine)
But, if you want me to buy your feel-good pablum, you’re going to have to do a really tight job of defining EXACTLY what it means “not to endanger” while at the same time “allowing to subdue”.
No drilling for oil? No burning fossil fuel of any kind? No dumping at sea? No eating meat? No GMO? No air travel? All of those things can be, AND HAVE BEEN, proscribed for us unwashed masses by our betters in the environmental grievance industry and at the UN... to which chorus the good pope is also lustily lending his own voice.
Who draws the line, and where? You? The Pope? Obama? Kofi Anan? Who?
Tell me what you believe in enough detail that it becomes clear, before you bind up that burden and lay it on my shoulders because Popo said so and you agree.
And then show me how you bear the burden yourself! Do you walk everywhere you go, wear only hemp clothing, use no electricity, waste no water, ... ?
Jesus said of the Pharisees, “they...tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger.” That defines not only the Gaia worshipping secular humanists with which the pope has chosen to ally himself (as have you, apparently). I’m afraid it also applies to the Pope himself.