Vatican newspaper: Time is running out to counter global climate emergency

July 20, 2023

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CWN Editor's Note: With the headline “CLIMA: Emergenza globale” [CLIMATE: Global Emergency], the Vatican newspaper devoted the most prominent front-page coverage in its July 19 edition to a UN report that referred to heatwaves as the “new normal.”

Gaetano Vallini, a journalist at L’Osservatore Romano, wrote, “Are we really foolish enough to want to test what levels we will be able to bear before the situation becomes unsustainable and, above all, irrecoverable? Rather than accepting a very risky bet, we should realize that there is less and less time to act, to stop this self-destructive drift.”

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• Posted by: IM4HIM - Jul. 20, 2023 3:30 PM ET USA

  With all of the widespread evil in the world today you would think that a Vatican newspaper would focus on that and not some disputed theories about climate change. The next life is far more important than our time in this world.