Francis says rich countries have an 'ecological debt' because it is they which have caused the most environmental pollution over the past two centuries.
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Thursday, July 21, called on world leaders to heed the Earth’s “chorus of cries of anguish” stemming from climate change, extreme weather and loss of biodiversity.
Francis said rich countries have an “ecological debt” because it is they who had caused the most environmental pollution over the past two centuries, marring nature’s song. Emergency services have battled wildfires across swathes of southern Europe amid a brutal heatwaves this week, prompting warnings that the fight against climate change needed to beThe appeal came a few days before the Pope is due to leave for a trip to Canada, where he will meet with indigenous people in Iqaluit in the Canadian arctic, which is part of the fastest-warming part of North America.
Francis repeated an appeal “in the name of God” that he first made last year to the mining, oil, forestry, real estate and agribusiness industries to “stop destroying forests, wetlands, and mountains, to stop polluting rivers and seas, to stop poisoning food and people”.
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