Pope Francis to scientists: commitment to
sustainability
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis
received the participants in the Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of
Sciences on Monday in the Consistory Hall of the Apostolic Palace in the
Vatican.
the gathering is bringing
together leading scientists from a broad spectrum of fields to explore
how already available or expected scientific advances affect – for good and for
ill – the sustainable development of human societies and their environments.
The working understanding of
sustainability out of which Academy members were invited to work is one in
which development should contribute to life on Earth at the very long term, to
maintain a relatively stable equilibrium of human civilization within the
broader and constantly evolving planetary ecology.
In remarks prepared for the
occasion and delivered to the Academicians Monday morning, Pope Francis
said, “[I]t falls to scientists, who work free of political, economic or
ideological interests, to develop a cultural model which can face the crisis of
climatic change and its social consequences, so that the vast potential of
productivity will not be reserved only for the few.”
The Holy Father also called on
political leaders informed by the best efforts of the scientific community to
craft laws and a binding international structure of norms to safeguard the
created order and the human ecology at the center of it.
“It has now become essential to
create, with your cooperation, a normative system that includes inviolable
limits and ensures the protection of ecosystems,” said Pope Francis, “before
the new forms of power deriving from the techno-economic model causes
irreversible harm not only to the environment, but also to our societies, to
democracy, to justice and freedom.”
The Plenary Session of the
Pontifical Academy of sciences opened on November 25th, and
closes on November 29th.
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