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The Climate Is A Common Good, Belonging To All And Meant For All.

Today We Celebrate Earth Day. I Exhort Everyone To See The World Through The Eyes Of God The Creator: The Earth Is An Environment To Be Safeguarded, A Garden To Be Cultivated. The Relationship Of Mankind With Nature Must Not Be Conducted With Greed, Manipulation And Exploitation, But It Must Conserve The Divine Harmony That Exists Between Creatures And Creation Within The Logic Of Respect And Care, So It Can Be Put To The Service Of Our Brothers, Also Of Future Generations.

The Pace Of Consumption, Waste And Environmental Change Has So Stretched The Planet's Capacity That Our Contemporary Lifestyle, Unsustainable As It Is, Can Only Precipitate Catastrophes, Such As Those Which Even Now Periodically Occur In Different Areas Of The World ... We Need To Reflect On Our Accountability Before Those Who Will Have To Endure The Dire Consequences.

Every Man, Every Woman Who Has To Take Up The Service Of Government, Must Ask Themselves Two Questions: ‘do I Love My People In Order To Serve Them Better? Am I Humble And Do I Listen To Everybody, To Diverse Opinions In Order To Choose The Best Path.’ If You Don’t Ask Those Questions, Your Governance Will Not Be Good.

I Don’t Know If It Is All (man’s Fault) But The Majority Is, For The Most Part, It Is Man Who Continuously Slaps Down Nature.