He said the duty to protect the environment is both an individual and collective responsibility, adding that “when we speak only of rights, we think only of what is due to us.”
Cardinal Bo said “ecological sins need to get as much press as the sexual sins get in many parts of the Catholic world”
The priest said civil society organizations and faith-based groups in other regions and at the national level “have a huge role in educating the public that this ecological concern affects the entire country.”
The Philippines ranked third in the world for failing to deal with its plastics, with 81 percent of the country’s plastics waste mismanaged
The groups expressed alarm over the “increasing detrimental activities” threatening the area, including plans to extract fossil gas
The parish priest said the climate crisis “makes it clear that the use of coal and all other fossil fuels needs to end”
The proposed police allows the bank to continuously support and finance fossil gas projects
We are called to be mindful that the poor suffer most the effects of climate change, pollution, and the destruction of the environment.
The group made the call on the occasion of International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) on October 13
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