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

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🗓️ 11 October 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The global climate crisis will require us to transform the way we act, says His Holiness Pope Francis. Delivering a visionary TED Talk from Vatican City, the spiritual leader proposes three courses of action to address the world’s growing environmental problems and economic inequalities, illustrating how all of us can work together, across faiths and societies, to protect the Earth and promote the dignity of everyone. “The future is built today,” he says. “And it is not built in isolation, but rather in community and in harmony.”

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0:00.0	Hello there. This is Chris Anderson, head of TED. We have something truly special for you today.
0:11.0	It's a talk from His Holiness, Pope Francis, given at the recent Countdown Global Launch event.
0:19.8	Countdown is Ted's new global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis.
0:25.0	And this talk was a big highlight.
0:27.9	To get involved, check out countdown.ted.com and subscribe to the Countdown podcast, wherever you're listening to this.
0:36.6	And now, here is Pope Francis.
0:43.3	Hello. We are living during a historic moment marked by difficult challenges, as we all know.
0:50.6	The world is shaken by the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,
0:56.9	which highlights yet an even bigger challenge, the socio-environmental crisis.
1:07.8	This requires us, all of us, to face a choice.
1:13.7	The choice between what matters and what doesn't.
1:20.6	The choice between continuing to ignore the suffering of the poorest
1:27.0	and to abuse our common home, the planet, or engaging
1:35.1	at every level to transform the way we act.
1:42.4	Science tells us every day with more precision that urgent action is needed.
1:51.0	And I'm not dramatizing here, this is what science says, if we are to keep the hope of avoiding radical and catastrophic climate change.
2:02.1	And for this, we must act now.
2:05.7	This is a scientific fact.
2:07.9	Our conscience tells us that we cannot remain indifferent to the suffering of those in need,
2:18.4	to the growing economic inequalities and social injustices,
2:26.5	and that the economy itself cannot be limited to production and distribution.
2:35.5	It must also consider its impacts on both the environment and on the dignity of people.
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