Pope Francis made an urgent call Friday to world leaders ahead of the UN climate conference to make “radical decisions” to protect the environment and prioritize the common good over nationalist interests.
Francis delivered the “Thought for the Day” on the British Broadcasting Corp. morning radio show before October 31 to November 31. 13th climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
In the message, Francis urged political leaders not to waste the opportunity created by the turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic to change course and chart a future based on a sense of shared responsibility for a common destiny.
“It means giving priority to the common good, and it requires a change of perspective, a new look, in which the dignity of every human being, now and in the future, will guide our ways of thinking and acting,” said Francis. . “The most important lesson we can learn from these crises is our need to build together, so that there are no longer political borders, barriers or walls behind which to hide.”
Francis has made the care of God’s creation one of the hallmarks of his papacy. In 2015, before the last UN climate conference in Paris, he wrote the first ecological encyclical, “Praise him,” in which he denounced how the “perverse” global economic model of profit at all costs had exploited the poorest. , devastated the Earth’s natural resources and turned the planet into a “huge pile of dirt.”
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