Pope to UN conference: Don't waste chance to save the planet

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis issued an urgent entreaty Friday to satellite leaders up of the U.N. clime league to instrumentality “radical decisions” to support the situation and prioritize the communal bully alternatively than nationalistic interests.

Francis delivered the “Thought for the Day” connected the British Broadcasting Corp.’s greeting vigor programme up of the Oct. 31-Nov. 13 clime league successful Glasgow, Scotland.

In the message, Francis urged governmental leaders not to discarded the accidental created by the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic to alteration people and illustration a aboriginal based connected a consciousness of shared work for a communal destiny.

“It means giving precedence to the communal good, and it calls for a alteration successful perspective, a caller outlook, successful which the dignity of each quality being, present and successful the future, volition usher our ways of reasoning and acting,” Francis said. “The astir important acquisition we tin instrumentality from these crises is our request to physique together, truthful that determination volition nary longer beryllium immoderate borders, barriers oregon governmental walls for america to fell behind.”

Francis has made caring for God’s Creation 1 of the hallmarks of his papacy. In 2015, up of the past U.N. clime league successful Paris, helium penned the first-ever ecological encyclical, “Praised Be,” successful which helium denounced however the “perverse” profit-at-all-costs planetary economical exemplary had exploited the poorest, ravaged Earth’s earthy resources and turned the satellite into an “immense heap of filth.”