[1] UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS, Global Climate Change Background, 2019. [2] SPECIAL ASSEMBLY FOR THE PAN-AMAZONIAN REGION, Final Document, October 2019, 10: AAS 111 (2019), 1744. [3] SYMPOSIUM OF EPISCOPAL CONFERENCES OF AFRICA AND MADAGASCAR (SECAM), African Climate Dialogues Communiqué, Nairobi, 17 October 2022. [4] Cf. INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC), Climate Change 2021, The Physical Science Basis, Cambridge and New York, 2021, B.2.2. [5] Cf. ID., Climate Change 2023, Synthesis Report, Summary for Policymakers, B.3.2. For the 2023 Report, see https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/ IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf. [6] Cf. UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM, The Emissions Gap Report 2022: https://www.unep.org/ resources/emissions-gap-report-2022. [7] Cf. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Earth System Research Laboratories, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: https://www.gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/. [8] Cf. IPCC, Climate Change 2023, Synthesis Report, Summary for Policymakers, A.1.3. [9] Cf. ibid., B.5.3. [10] These are data of the IPCC, based on 34,000 studies: INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC); cf. Synthesis Report of the Sixth Assessment Report (20/03/2023): AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023 (ipcc.ch). [11] Cf. IPCC, Climate Change 2023, Synthesis Report, Summary for Policymakers, A.1.2. [12] Cf. ibid. [13] Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ (24 May 2015), 101: AAS 107 (2015), 887. [14] Ibid., 105: AAS 107 (2015), 889. [15] Ibid. 106: AAS 107 (2015), 890. [16] Ibid., 104: AAS 107 (2015), 888-889. [17] Ibid., 105: AAS 107 (2015), 889. [18] Ibid., 139: AAS 107 (2015), 903. [19] Ibid., 220: AAS 107 (2015), 934. [20] Cf. S. SÖRLIN-P. WARDE, “Making the Environment Historical. An Introduction”, in S. SÖRLIN-P. WARDE, eds., Nature’s End: History and the Environment, Basingstroke-New York, 2009, 1-23. [21] Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ (24 May 2015), 139: AAS 107 (2015), 903. [22] Cf. War, Progress and the End of History, Including a Short Story of the Anti-Christ. Three Discussions by Vladimir Soloviev, London, 1915, p. 197. [23] Cf. SAINT PAUL VI, Address to FAO on its 25th Anniversary (16 November 1970), 4: AAS 62 (1970), 833. [24] Encyclical Letter Fratelli Tutti (3 October 2020), 11: AAS 112 (2020), 972. [25] Ibid., 174: AAS 112 (2020), 1030. [26] Ibid., 172: AAS 112 (2020), 1029. [27] Ibid. [28] Cf. ibid., 170: AAS 112 (2020), 1029. [29] Ibid. [30] Ibid., 175: AAS 112 (2020), 1031. [31] Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ (24 May 2015), 179: AAS 107 (2015), 918. [32] Ibid., 167: AAS 107 (2015), 914. [33] Ibid., 169: AAS 107 (2015), 915. [34] Ibid., 111: AAS 107 (2015), 982. [35] Ibid., 57: AAS 107 (2015), 870. [36] Ibid., 68: AAS 107 (2015), 874. [37] Ibid., 86: AAS 107 (2015), 881. [38] Ibid., 97: AAS 107 (2015), 886. [39] Ibid., 100: AAS 197 (2015), 887. [40] Ibid., 233: AAS 107 (2015), 938. [41] Cf. D. J. HARAWAY, When Species Meet, Minneapolis, 2008, pp. 205-249. [42] Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ (24 May 2015), 89: AAS 107 (2015), 883. [43] Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (24 November 2013), 215: AAS 105 (2013), 1109. [44] Cf. UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM, The Emissions Gap Report 2022: https://www.unep.org/ resources/emissions-gap-report-2022. “Praise God” is the title of this letter. For when human beings claim to take God’s place, they become their own worst enemies. Pope Francis
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