Name: His Holiness Pope Francis | Our moral imperative to act on climate change -- and 3 steps we can take
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Translator: Elena Montrasio Reviewer: Bruno Giussani

[His Holiness Pope Francis Filmed in Vatican City

First shown at TED Countdown Global Launch, October 2020]

marked by difficult challenges, as we all know.

And this requires us, all of us, to face a choice.

Science tells us, every day, with more precision,

and I am not dramatizing, this is what science says --

Our conscience tells us that we cannot remain indifferent

And that the economy itself cannot be limited to production and distribution.

its impacts on both the environment and on the dignity of people.

I would like to invite you to go on a journey together.

A journey of transformation and of action.

but rather of concrete and pressing actions.

I am calling it a journey because it requires a shift, a change.

From this crisis none of us must come out the same --

from a crisis, we never come out the same --

and it will take time, and hard work, to overcome it.

We will have to take it one step at a time;

without compromising the possibilities of future generations.

I would like to invite all people of faith,

or if you do not have a faith, from your own intention,

Each one of us, as individuals, or members of a group --

families, communities of faith, businesses, associations, institutions --

Five years ago I wrote the encyclical letter "Laudato Si',"

dedicated to the care of our common home.

It proposes the concept of "integral ecology,"

to respond together to the cry of the Earth,

starting from the conviction that everything in the world is connected

and that, as the pandemic made sure to remind us,

without limiting ourselves to the economic,

technological, financial and gross-product aspects,

I would like to propose today three courses of action.

the change and the right orientation for our journey of integral ecology

require first that we all take an educational step.

an education geared towards the care of our common home,

that environmental problems are linked to human needs.

We must understand this from the beginning:

environmental problems are tied to human needs.

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His Holiness Pope Francis | Our moral imperative to act on climate change -- and 3 steps we can take

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