https://www.nationofchange.org/2023/10/05/pope-francis-tells-world-to-speed-up-transition-to-renewable-energy-in-apostolic-exhortation/

#Pope Francis tells #world to speed up transition to #renewable energy in Apostolic Exhortation
Pope Francis said Earth “may be nearing the breaking point” based on scientific facts and human factors contributing to #climate change can no longer be ignored.

By Ashley Curtin -October 5, 2023

...“With the passage of time, I have realized that our responses have not been adequate, while the world in which we live is collapsing,” Pope Francis wrote in Laudate Deum.

He also warned against “investing too much trust in carbon capture technology” because “it did not address the root human causes of global warming,” EcoWatch reported.

“Some effects of the climate crisis are already irreversible, at least for several hundred years, such as the increase in the global temperature of the oceans, their acidification and the decrease of oxygen,” Pope Francis wrote.

He called the speed of climate change is happening to the world in “one generation — not centuries or millennia” and therefore, called on businesses and “certain countries” to end short-tern interested because climate change can no longer be denied.

Pope Francis also said environmentalists and activist groups are “filling a space left empty by society as a whole.”...