- REVELATION 1: The Revelation of Jesus
- REVELATION 2: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira
- REVELATION 3: Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea
- REVELATION 4: The Throne of God
- REVELATION 5: The Sealed Book
- REVELATION 6: The Seals Are Opened
- REVELATION 7: The Remnant Is Sealed
- REVELATION 8: The Trumpet Judgments
- REVELATION 9: More Trumpet Judgments
- REVELATION 10: The Second Coming
- REVELATION 11: The Two Witnesses
- REVELATION 12: The Dragon Cast Out
- REVELATION 13: The Beast and the False Prophet
- REVELATION 14: The 144,000 in Heaven
- REVELATION 15: The Seven Last Plagues
- REVELATION 16: The Plagues Are Poured Out
- REVELATION 17: The Pulling Down of Babylon
- REVELATION 18: Commercial Babylon Falls
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- REVELATION 20: The Judgments
- REVELATION 21: A New Heaven and Earth
- REVELATION 22: The Soon Return of Christ
Pope Francis: “We have caused a climate emergency that gravely threatens nature and life itself, including our own."
“Now is the time to abandon our dependence on fossil fuels and move, quickly and decisively, towards forms of clean energy and a sustainable and circular economy,” he said.
Calling the U.N. summit “of particular importance,” he added: “There, governments will have the responsibility of showing the political will to take drastic measures to achieve as quickly as possible zero net greenhouse gas emissions and to limit the average increase in global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius with respect to pre-industrial levels, in accordance with the Paris Agreement goals.”
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By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis challenged governments on Sunday to take “drastic measures” to combat global warming and reduce the use of fossil fuels, saying the world was experiencing a climate emergency.
Francis issued his appeal, a written message for Sunday’s World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, ahead of the United Nations Climate Action Summit this month in New York, a follow up to the 2016 Paris Agreement to curb global warming.
Calling the U.N. summit “of particular importance,” he added:
“There, governments will have the responsibility of showing the political will to take drastic measures to achieve as quickly as possible zero net greenhouse gas emissions and to limit the average increase in global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius with respect to pre-industrial levels, in accordance with the Paris Agreement goals.”
Francis has made many calls for environmental protection and has clashed over climate change with skeptics leaders such as U.S. President Donald Trump, who has taken the United States out of the Paris accord.
“We have caused a climate emergency that gravely threatens nature and life itself, including our own,” the leader of the world’s 1.3 billon Roman Catholics said in the message for the prayer day, which is marked by various Christian Churches.
“Our prayers and appeals are directed first at raising the awareness of political and civil leaders,” he said, adding that governments should “renew commitments decisive for directing the planet towards life, not death”.
He listed constant pollution, continued use of fossil fuels, intensive agricultural exploitation and deforestation as being among the man-made causes of global warming and said the Amazon, where fires are raging, is “gravely threatened”.
“Now is the time to abandon our dependence on fossil fuels and move, quickly and decisively, towards forms of clean energy and a sustainable and circular economy,” he said.
Other phenomena, such as the melting of glaciers and the presence of plastic and microplastics in the oceans “testify to the urgent need for interventions that can no longer be postponed,” he said.
“Egoism and self-interest have turned creation, a place of encounter and sharing, into an arena of competition and conflict,” he said. https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/09/02/pope-francis-we-have-caused-a-climate-emergency-urges-drastic-measures-calls-un-climate-summit-of-particular-importance-to-save-world/
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