"In his video message for the launch of the Laudato si’ Platform on Tuesday, Pope Francis notes that "with the Encyclical Laudato si’,
promulgated in 2015, I invited all people of good will to take care of the Earth, which is our common home."This "house that hosts us" has been suffering for a long time, from "the wounds that we cause by our predatory attitude," laments the Pope.
He highlights the fact that "the current pandemic has now brought to
light in an even stronger way the cry of nature and that of the poor who
suffer most the consequences, highlighting that everything is
interconnected and interdependent and that our health is not separated
from the health of the environment in which we live."
It is for this reason that we need "a new ecological approach," says Pope Francis. In this way we can "transform our way of dwelling in the world, our styles of life, our relationship with the resources of the Earth and, in general, our way of looking at humanity and of
living life." Pope Francis then goes on .. "Let us take care of our mother Earth; let us overcome the temptation of selfishness that makes us predators of resources; let us cultivate respect for the gifts of the Earth and creation; let us inaugurate a lifestyle and a society that is finally eco-sustainable: we have the opportunity to prepare a better tomorrow for all."The Pope then goes on to explain that the Laudato si' Action Platform is "a seven-year journey that will see our communities
committed in different ways to becoming totally sustainable, in the spirit of integral ecology." Working together, he says, "each one with his own culture and experience, each one with her own initiatives and capacities, so that our mother Earth may be restored to her original beauty and creation may once again shine according to God’s plan." VaticanNews