The world as we know it is βcollapsingβ amid rapidly accelerating climate change and inaction by global leaders, Pope Francis has warned. He singled out developed Western nations as the main culprits behind the crisis.
In his Apostolic Exhortation entitled Laudate Deum and published on Wednesday, the head of the Roman Catholic Church lamented that little progress has been made since he released the Encyclical Letter Laudato Siβ on the topic back in 2015.
βThe world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point,β with the current climate crisis threatening the very βdignity of human life,β the Pontiff insisted. He went on to stress that its consequences are becoming increasingly harder to ignore, manifesting themselves in βextreme weather phenomena, frequent periods of unusual heat, drought.β
