Posted on 10/29/2021 6:35:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
In a message recorded exclusively for the BBC, Pope Francis has called on world leaders meeting next week at the UN Climate conference in Glasgow to provide "effective responses" to the environment emergency and offer "concrete hope" to future generations.
Speaking from the Vatican for BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day, the Pope talked of crises including the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and economic difficulties, and urged the world to respond to them with vision and radical decisions, so as not to "waste opportunities" that the current challenges present.
"We can confront these crises by retreating into isolationism, protectionism and exploitation," the pontiff said, "or we can see in them a real chance for change."
He evoked the need for "a renewed sense of shared responsibility for our world", adding that "each of us - whoever and wherever we may be - can play our own part in changing our collective response to the unprecedented threat of climate change and the degradation of our common home."
The Pontiff is due to meet US President Joe Biden at the Vatican later. Mr Biden's domestic climate policies are yet to pass through the US Congress.
The message is a reminder of the emphasis Francis has placed on environmentalism throughout his pontificate.
He has frequently evoked the climate crisis in speeches, and in 2015 published an encyclical, or papal document, called Laudato Si' focusing on the issue. In the text, subtitled On Care for our Common Home, he decried environmental destruction, stressed the need to take mitigating measures and gave an unambiguous acceptance that climate change was largely man made.
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The pope is a communist who is set on destroying western capitalism.
Say it in Mandarin in Beijing.
This pope pissed away ALL goodwill the role of Pontiff ever had. He is spouting nonsense to an empty room.
The anti-Pope needs to take the lead and permanently turn off all electricity in Vatican City.
Time to walk the walk!
BBC takes a break from attacking Christianity for a moment to praise the Pope.
This wolf in sheets clothing has well past his expiration date.
New World Order elites have to just love this guy!
Barf Alert Ping
E tu Papa?
Okay. Let’s start with the Vatican. Cut every gas and electric line going into the place.
Then charge them huge carbon tax when they are back to using firewood.
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Christ, not so much. That would be rigid.
Pope Innocent II officially banned all projectile weapons in 12th Century Christendom. Will this phony pope ban Catholics from using private jets?
The False Prophet has spouted his crap once again.
I respectfully disagree. Not only is he not talking to an empty room, he actually has a very attentive audience. Those are the “modern Catholics” as opposed to “traditional Catholics”. The modern Catholics are the same ones who voted for Obama and Biden. They are a subset of the larger group of indoctrinated Americans who have long given up any form of critical thinking and do what’s they’re told to do by the media. The modern Catholics are further directed by this diabolically-inspired pope and the feckless modern bishops. You’ll find most all of them in lines with their masks on waiting for their 3rd or 4th jab.
I respectfully disagree. Not only is he not talking to an empty room, he actually has a very attentive audience. Those are the “modern Catholics” as opposed to “traditional Catholics”. The modern Catholics are the same ones who voted for Obama and Biden. They are a subset of the larger group of indoctrinated Americans who have long given up any form of critical thinking and do what’s they’re told to do by the media. The modern Catholics are further directed by this diabolically-inspired pope and the feckless modern bishops. You’ll find most all of them in lines with their masks on waiting for their 3rd or 4th jab.
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