Vatican Official: Environmental Crisis is a Moral Challenge

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Archbishop Celestino Migliore:

The duty to protect the environment “must not be sacrificed on the altar of economic development,” said the archbishop, the Vatican’s U.N. representative.

"My delegation believes that, at its core, the environmental crisis is a moral challenge. It calls us to examine how we use and share the goods of the earth and what we pass on to future generations

Archbishop Celestino Migliore:

The issue of ecology should not be seen in isolation from other social and justice questions, such as poverty, he said.

“We must consider how, in most countries today, it is the poor and the powerless who most directly bear the brunt of environmental degradation,” he said.

"Unable to do otherwise, they live in polluted lands, near toxic waste dumps, or squat in public lands and other people’s properties without any access to basic services

 

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Notice he didn’t use the word global warming.