Cardinal Turkson stresses environment in talk to World Meeting of Families
September 24, 2015
Cardinal Peter Turkson, the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, emphasized environmental issues in a September 24 presentation to the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia.
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The environment is home to all mankind, the African cardinal said, and should be treasured as any family treasures its home. Moreover, he said, climate change and environmental degradation cause difficulties, especially for poor families.
“Our difficulty in taking this challenge seriously has much to do with an ethical and cultural decline which has accompanied the deterioration of the environment,” Cardinal Turkson argued. He called for an understanding of the common good that is “not just horizontal (the good of everyone now) but vertical (the good of future generations).”
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Posted by: aclune9083 -
Sep. 24, 2015 10:18 PM ET USA
We must all be good stewards of the environment; it is God's charter to us. This means, however, we must be careful not to rush into policies that are questionable at best from a scientific viewpoint but devastating from an economic standpoint. I fear that the Pope's advisers have accepted uncritically the shaky--and, perhaps, politically motivated--science that supports anthropogenic climate change and man's ability to slow or reverse it.
