Climate change and its human causes cannot be denied, papal document says

Source: Reuters

Climate change and its human causes cannot be denied, papal document says

By Philip Pullella
October 4, 2023 6:18 AM EDT Updated 6 hours ago

VATICAN CITY, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday appealed to climate change deniers and foot-dragging politicians to have a change of heart, saying they cannot gloss over its human causes or deride scientific facts while the planet "may be nearing the breaking point".

In the new document, released ahead of the COP28 conference starting next month in Dubai, Francis said the transition to clean, renewable energy and the abandonment of fossil fuels was not going fast enough.

He warned against putting too much trust in technology to capture gas emissions, saying that while it was promising, it did not tackle the human causes at the root of global warming.

The 7,000-word document, called Laudate Deum (Praise God), is a follow-up to his 2015 encyclical on the environment "Laudato Si" (Praise Be). It was prompted by extreme weather events since then, which he called the earth's "cries of protest".

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