"Pope Francis, addressing the U.N. General Assembly today, urged international cooperation not only to solve humanity's largest problems but to save humanity itself.
Quoting a speech to the U.N. by his predecessor Pope Paul VI in 1965, Francis said of the world today: "The real danger comes from man...."
1. On the sacredness of the environment:
"Any harm done to the environment, therefore, is harm done to humanity."
2. On climate change's impact on poverty:
"The poorest are those who suffer most from such offenses, for three serious reasons: they are cast off by society, forced to live off what is discarded and suffer unjustly from the abuse of the environment. They are part of today's widespread and quietly growing 'culture of waste.'"
"Right Of The Environment"
"A true 'right of the environment' does exist, for two reasons. First, because we human beings are part of the environment. We live in communion with it, since the environment itself entails ethical limits which human activity must acknowledge and respect. Man, for all his remarkable gifts, which 'are signs of a uniqueness which transcends the spheres of physics and biology,' is at the same time a part of these spheres."
Nature Is Sacred
"This common home of all men and women must also be built on the understanding of a certain sacredness of created nature." Bustle
"Before the pontiff's address Friday, U.N. General Secretary Ban-Ki Moon thanked Francis “for demonstrating once again your remarkable global stature as a man of faith among all faiths.” USAToday
Quoting a speech to the U.N. by his predecessor Pope Paul VI in 1965, Francis said of the world today: "The real danger comes from man...."
"Any harm done to the environment, therefore, is harm done to humanity."
2. On climate change's impact on poverty:
"The poorest are those who suffer most from such offenses, for three serious reasons: they are cast off by society, forced to live off what is discarded and suffer unjustly from the abuse of the environment. They are part of today's widespread and quietly growing 'culture of waste.'"
"Right Of The Environment"
"A true 'right of the environment' does exist, for two reasons. First, because we human beings are part of the environment. We live in communion with it, since the environment itself entails ethical limits which human activity must acknowledge and respect. Man, for all his remarkable gifts, which 'are signs of a uniqueness which transcends the spheres of physics and biology,' is at the same time a part of these spheres."
Nature Is Sacred
"This common home of all men and women must also be built on the understanding of a certain sacredness of created nature." Bustle
"Before the pontiff's address Friday, U.N. General Secretary Ban-Ki Moon thanked Francis “for demonstrating once again your remarkable global stature as a man of faith among all faiths.” USAToday
Paul has a little different take on things...
They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,
and worshiped and served created things
rather than the Creator...
Romans 1:25 NIV
