On Pope Francis's 180 page encyclical entitled 'On Care For Our Common Home'.
Pope Francis talks about tackling the continued degradation of all forms on our planet stating in Paragraph 48,
"The
human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together; we
cannot adequately combat environmental degradation unless we attend to
causes related to human and social degradation."
before going on to say in Paragraph 56,
"In
the meantime, economic powers continue to justify the current global
system where priority tends to be given to speculation and the pursuit
of financial gain, which fail to take the context into account, let
alone the effects on human dignity and the natural environment. Here we
see how environmental deterioration and human and ethical degradation
are closely linked. Many people will deny doing anything wrong because
distractions constantly dull our consciousness of just how limited and
finite our world really is. As a result, “whatever is fragile, like the
environment, is defenceless before the interests of a deified market,
which become the only rule."
Human degradation by greedy higher up human beings leads to environmental degradation which leads to natural environment deterioration. To arrest this we have to improve human life on this planet, pluck power and resources from the greedy grabbing hands and redistribute wealth equally to all....
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