The world must rapidly ditch fossil fuels and end 'the senseless war against creation', Pope Francis said on Thursday, in a fresh plea over climate change that called on people to repent for their 'ecological sins'.
Pope Francis speaks as he meets with bishops and delegates of the Synodal Path in Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, May 25, 2023. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
Francis has made the protection of the environment a cornerstone of his pontificate, noting in his landmark 2015 "Laudato Si" encyclical that the planet was "beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth". "According to the commitments undertaken in the Paris Agreement to restrain global warming, it is absurd to permit the continued exploration and expansion of fossil fuel infrastructures," he added.
Francis, an Argentine who is the first pope to hail from the so-called Global South, denounced global inequalities and said that "consumerist greed, fuelled by selfish hearts, is disrupting the planet's water cycle".
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