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from the hospital, where he has spent the past few days due to a respiratory infection that had caused him to have difficulty breathing. While the immediate cause of this hospitalization was the infection, it didn’t act on its own. Studies have found thatcan exacerbate the impacts of an infection by making it more difficult to breathe, therefore making hospitalization more likely.
This interconnection between disease and the environment calls to my mind one of the Pope’s first major works:In this 2015 encyclical, Pope Francis discusses the urgent crisis of many aspects of the environment, and calls on “the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change.”
One of the specific challenges articulated in the work is that of air pollution, which he wrote “broad spectrum of health hazards, especially for the poor, and causes millions of premature deaths.” Pollution, the bishop of Rome said, comes as a result of a “throwaway culture” that fails to be inspired by nature.
“It is hard for us to accept that the way natural ecosystems work is exemplary: plants synthesize nutrients which feed herbivores; these in turn become food for carnivores, which produce significant quantities of organic waste which give rise to new generations of plants,” Pope Francis wrote. “But our industrial system, at the end of its cycle of production and consumption, has not developed the capacity to absorb and reuse waste and by-products.
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