ROME – Warning that “the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point,” Pope Francis on Wednesday released a new document urging dramatic action to combat climate change ahead of the U.N. COP28 summit scheduled for Nov. 30-Dec. 12 in Dubai.
The new document, titled Laudate Deum, or “Praise God”, amounts to a strong rejection of scepticism about global warming and the consequences of human intervention in the environment.
“Despite all attempts to deny, conceal, gloss over or relativise the issue, the signs of climate change are here and increasingly evident,” the pope writes in the text, released on Oct. 4, the traditional Catholic feast of St. Francis.
