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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPope Urges "Radical" Action On Climate Change
Ahead of the upcoming G20 and COP26 conferences, Pope Francis said humanity must take "radical" action to address climate change and other crises. In a statement in Italian put out on CBS News partner network BBC News, the pontiff said humanity needs to abandon isolationism and work for the common good to offer "concrete hope" to future generations.
"We find ourselves increasingly frail and even fearful, caught up in a succession of crises in the areas of health care, the environment, food supplies and the economy, to say nothing of social, humanitarian and ethical crises," Francis said in a radio broadcast on the BBC.
"All these crises are profoundly interconnected. They also forecast a perfect storm that could rupture the bonds holding our society together. These crises present us with the need to take decisions, radical decisions that are not always easy. At the same time, moments of difficulty like these also present opportunities, opportunities that we must not waste," he said.
"We can confront these crises by retreating into isolationism, protectionism and exploitation. Or we can see in them a real chance for change, a genuine moment of conversion, and not simply in a spiritual sense," Francis said.
"The political decision makers who will meet at COP26 in Glasgow are urgently summoned to provide effective responses to the present ecological crisis and in this way to offer concrete hope to future generations. And it is worth repeating 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."
"We find ourselves increasingly frail and even fearful, caught up in a succession of crises in the areas of health care, the environment, food supplies and the economy, to say nothing of social, humanitarian and ethical crises," Francis said in a radio broadcast on the BBC.
"All these crises are profoundly interconnected. They also forecast a perfect storm that could rupture the bonds holding our society together. These crises present us with the need to take decisions, radical decisions that are not always easy. At the same time, moments of difficulty like these also present opportunities, opportunities that we must not waste," he said.
"We can confront these crises by retreating into isolationism, protectionism and exploitation. Or we can see in them a real chance for change, a genuine moment of conversion, and not simply in a spiritual sense," Francis said.
"The political decision makers who will meet at COP26 in Glasgow are urgently summoned to provide effective responses to the present ecological crisis and in this way to offer concrete hope to future generations. And it is worth repeating 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."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-urges-radical-action-on-climate-change-ahead-of-cop-26/
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Pope Urges "Radical" Action On Climate Change (Original Post)
WHITT
Oct 2021
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FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)1. Well then, he just needs to outbid the coal companies
for a certain US senator. Then we can get moving.
WHITT
(2,868 posts)2. It Just Hit Me
Manchin is Catholic.
Hmmmmmm.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)3. I didn't know that.
Then I hope Manchin's name came up in the 90 minute private meeting.
marie999
(3,334 posts)4. I'll be interested in what comes out of COP26.
I don't know why because whatever it is the world as a whole will not do anything significant to even slow down climate change.