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The Vatican’s Secretary of State has warned there are no political barriers behind which people can hide from environmental and social degradation.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin sent a message to a conference on “The New Climate Economy” in Rome.
“When the future of the planet is at stake, there are no political frontiers, barriers or walls behind which we can hide to protect ourselves from the effects of environmental and social degradation,” the cardinal wrote.
“There is no room for the globalisation of indifference, the economy of exclusion or the throwaway culture so often denounced by Pope Francis,” he added.
However, Cardinal Parolin acknowledged that the path ahead would not be easy.
“. . . .[T]his ethical and moral responsibility calls into question the resetting of the development model, requiring a major political and economic commitment.”
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