Posted on 05/16/2024 3:36:44 PM PDT by ebb tide
The Pontifical Academies of Science and Social Sciences is hosting a three-day summit in the Vatican that brings together mayors, governors, and experts to explore the theme: “From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience.”
Pope Francis held an audience with participants in the summit on Thursday, the second day of the event.
In his address, the Pope lamented the worsening data regarding climate change, calling for urgent action “to protect people and nature.”
As developing nations suffer more directly the effects of climate change, he asked the political leaders from various nations whether “we are working for a culture of life or for a culture of death”.
“The wealthier nations, around 1 billion people, produce more than half the heat trapping pollutants,” said the Pope. “On the contrary, the 3 billion poorer people contribute less than 10%, yet they suffer 75% of the resulting damage.”
Pope Francis recalled that destruction of the environment is “an offense against God” and a “structural sin” that endangers all people.
“We find ourselves faced with systemic challenges that are distinct yet interconnected: climate change, the loss of biodiversity, environmental decay, global disparities, lack of food security and threats to the dignity of the peoples affected by them,” he said.
Each of these issues, added the Pope, must be addressed urgently and collectively in order to safeguard the world’s poor, especially women and children, who bear a disproportionate burden.
Yet, he noted, those same women are not merely victims of climate change but also a “powerful force for resilience and adaptation.”
The Pope decried the cogs of global and national politics that are impeding actions to protect the most vulnerable exposed to climate change.
“An orderly progress,” he said, “is being held back by the greedy pursuit of short-term gains by polluting industries and by the spread of disinformation, which generates confusion and obstructs collective efforts for a change in course.”
Communities are dissolving and families are being forcibly dispersed, he said, adding that atmospheric pollution claims millions of lives each year.
Around 3.5 billion people are susceptible to climate change and therefore more likely to migrate, putting their lives at risk during “desperate journeys.”
In response to this crisis, Pope Francis added his voice to the heartfelt appeal launched by the members of the summit.
With them, he called for a “universal approach and resolute activity” to bring about a political shift in direction.
The Pope also highlighted the need to “invert the global warming curve” by halving the rate of warming over the next 25 years.
Finally, he urged policy makers to harness the regenerative power of nature in order to remove vast quantites of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. He mentioned especially the Amazon Basin and the Congo, peat bogs, mangroves, oceans, coral reefs, farmlands, and glacial icecaps.
“This holistic approach can combat climate change, while also confronting the double crisis of the loss of biodiversity and inequality by cultivating the ecosystems that sustain life,” he said.
In conclusion, Pope Francis invited efforts to create synergy and global solidarity, as well as a “new financial architecture,” to respond to the needs of the global South and island states affected by climate emergencies.
“There is a need to act with urgency, compassion and determination, since the stakes could not be higher.”
Not one mention of death, judgement, Heaven or Hell.
Pope Francis recalled that destruction of the environment is “an offense against God”
Bergoglio's entire papacy has been "an offense against God".
Commie Gaia worship.
He should be more concerned about souls and less about the climate.
Frank needs to go back to south America and continue working on the 4th reich.
Please start worrying about the souls of people. Our Father is going to hold you responsible for them
Ping
Quite a deceiver.
Back when I was a Catholic, so was the Pope.
Gaslighting from the Pope for evil pollical gain. Nice.
Please start worrying about the souls of people. Our Father is going to hold you responsible for them
I accept that he is the pope, but there is little doubt that this man is evil personified.
Perhaps he would have been better suited as a Marxist economics professor.
Actually, I’m certain of it.
Hey, “Holy” Father:
If every country on Earth confiscated every penny beyond bare subsistence from every person and spent it all on “climate”, they couldn’t affect the global temperature by one degree or the sea levels by an inch.
You cannot change the climate. You must adapt to it.
Lighten up, Francis.
Having heard so many things he’s said that were absolutely wrong I now refuse to accept anything he says as being legitimate.
The thing that tires me the most about climate change is that we have been making sacrifices for a couple of decades now and we seem to have made no progress at all. I went from driving a buick with a 350 cubic inch engine in 1993 to a Hyundai Kona electric in 2023. I switched all of my incandescent bulbs for LED. I went from a 25” CRT TV to Flat LED TV. I went from a computer tower with a 600 watt power supply to a laptop that uses 65 watts. I put on solar panels and use an electric lawn mower. I recycle as much trash as I can. I buy in bulk wherever possible. I turn off lights and appliances when I am not using them.
There isn’t much else I can do. Why don’t they acknowledge the sacrifices and give us a pat on the back? Why are we being called greedy after doing so many things to work on the climate change problem? I feel like a child whose parents can only see the faults and never mention the good.
Thing is, if they give us credit for the sacrifices and tell us that we are winning, we might stop caring and trying, and they lose their holier than thou status.
Not my pope.
“Communities are dissolving and families are being forcibly dispersed, he said, adding that atmospheric pollution claims millions of lives each year.”
My goodness, Holy Father, that’s a lot. Can we see your data on that?
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