Climate: Pope, Cop26 offers effective and urgent responses to crises
“Cop26 in Glasgow is urgently called to offer effective responses to the unprecedented ecological crisis and the crisis of values in which we live, and thus to offer concrete hope to future generations: we wish to accompany it with our commitment and our closeness. spiritual”. Thus Pope Francis in the speech delivered to the participants at the meeting in the Vatican “Faith and science: towards COP26”. “The gaze of interdependence and sharing, the engine of love and the vocation to respect – underlines the Pontiff in his speech -. Here are three keys to reading that seem to me to enlighten our work for the care of our common home”.
Climate: Pope, everything is connected, not just science but also our faiths
“Everything is connected, in the world everything is intimately connected. Not only science, but also our faiths and our spiritual traditions highlight this connection that exists between all of us and with the rest of creation”. Thus Pope Francis in the speech delivered to the participants at the meeting in the Vatican “Faith and science: towards COP26”. “We recognize the signs of divine harmony present in the natural world: no creature is self-sufficient; each exists only in dependence on the others, to complement each other, in the service of one another”, the Pontiff underlined.
According to Francis, recognizing that the world is interconnected means “not only understanding the harmful consequences of our actions, but also identifying behaviors and solutions that must be adopted with an eye open to interdependence and sharing”. “You cannot act alone – he reiterated -, the commitment of each one to care for others and the environment is fundamental, a commitment that leads to such an urgent change of course and which must also be nourished by one’s own faith and spirituality'”. Today’s meeting, “which unites many cultures and spiritualities in a spirit of fraternity, only reinforces the awareness that we are members of a single human family: we each have our own faith and spiritual tradition, but there are no cultural, political or social borders and barriers that allow us to isolate ourselves. To give light to this gaze we want to commit ourselves to a future shaped by interdependence and co-responsibility “.