Pope urges top oil executives to
convert to clean fuel
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| Air pollution in India.- AFP |
Pope Francis on Saturday addressed participants at a Vatican
conference dedicated to the need for a transition to clean energy.
Addressing some 40 participants in a Vatican conference
dedicated to “Energy Transition and Care for our Common Home”, Pope
Francis said “civiliazation requires energy but energy use must not
destroy civilization".
The two-day conference that wrapped up on Saturday, was
promoted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in collaboration with Notre Dame
University.
It saw the participation of senior executives of leading oil
and gas companies including ExxonMobil, Eni, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Equinor and
Pemex.
In his speech, the Pope told them that climate change was a challenge of "epochal proportions” and said that the world needs to come up with an energy mix that combats pollution, eliminates poverty and promotes social justice.
In his speech, the Pope told them that climate change was a challenge of "epochal proportions” and said that the world needs to come up with an energy mix that combats pollution, eliminates poverty and promotes social justice.
He said that modern society with its “massive movement of
information, persons and things requires an immense supply of energy,” and
still, he pointed out, as many as one billion people lack electricity.
Meeting the energy needs of everyone on Earth, he said, must
be done in ways “that avoid creating environmental imbalances resulting in
deterioration and pollution gravely harmful to our human family, both now and
in the future.”
The Pope concluded his address quoting from his
Encyclical Laudato Sì: "There is no time to lose:
We received the earth as a garden-home from the Creator; let us not pass it on
to future generations as a wilderness".
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