Policymakers abroad: on Environment


Pope Francis: Avert serious effects of environmental deterioration

Business is a noble vocation directed to producing wealth and improving the world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity from the area in which it operates, especially if it assists the creation of jobs as an essential job of its purpose to the common good. This common good also includes the Earth. A central theme of the encyclical which I recently [released was that we should view our world as] our common home. We need a conversation which includes everyone since the environmental challenge we are undergoing and its human roots concern and effect us all.

I call for a courageous and responsible effort to redirect our steps and to avert the most serious effects of the environmental deterioration caused by human activity. I am convinced that we can make a difference, I'm sure. And I have no doubt that the United States, and this Congress, have an important role to play.

Source: Address to Congress in 2015 U.S. visit (Foreign Influencers) Sep 24, 2015

Pope Francis: Amazon is not an inexhaustible source of resources

In the middle of Peru's Amazon jungle, Pope Francis delivered a speech stressing ecology and issuing a strong appeal for protection of the Amazon region, which he said is not an "inexhaustible source of resources," while also insisting that human life has equal, if not greater, value.

"We know of the suffering caused for some of you by emissions of hydrocarbons, which gravely threaten the lives of your families and contaminate your natural environment," he said.

There are movements, the pope told a stadium with some 4,000 people from the Amazonian region, trying to preserve the forest that also "hoard great expanses of woodland and negotiate with them, leading to situations of oppression for the native peoples." Saving the trees and wildlife, in other words, is not good enough, if the people who live in the region are not equally protected.

Source: CruxNow.com, "Pope in Amazon": Foreign Influencers Jan 19, 2018

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