Few moments in Pope Francis바카라 게임 웹사이트� papacy better exemplify his understanding of climate change and the need to address it than the rain-soaked Mass he celebrated in Tacloban, Philippines, in 2015.Wearing one of the cheap plastic yellow ponchos that were handed out to the faithful, Francis experienced first-hand the type of freak, extreme storms that scientists blame on global warming and are increasingly striking vulnerable, low-lying islands.He had traveled to Tacloban, on the island of Leyte, to comfort survivors of one of the strongest recorded tropical cyclones, Typhoon Haiyan. The 2013 storm killed more than 7,300 people, flattened villages and displaced about 5 million residents.But with another storm approaching Tacloban two years later, Francis had to cut short his visit to get off the island.바카라 게임 웹사이트�So many of you have lost everything. I don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t know what to tell you,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Francis told the crowd in Tacloban바카라 게임 웹사이트�s muddy airport field as the wind nearly toppled candlesticks on the altar.Francis, who died Monday at 88, was moved to silence that day by the survivors바카라 게임 웹사이트� pain and the devastation he saw. But he would channel it a few months later when he published his landmark encyclical, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Praised Be,바카라 게임 웹사이트� which cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral concern.The first ecological encyclicalThe document, written to inspire global negotiators at the 2015 Paris climate talks, accused the 바카라 게임 웹사이트�structurally perverse,바카라 게임 웹사이트� profit-driven economy of the global north of ravaging Earth and turning it into a 바카라 게임 웹사이트�pile of filth.바카라 게임 웹사이트� The poor, Indigenous peoples and islanders like those in Tacloban suffered the most, he argued, bearing the brunt of increasing droughts, extreme storms, deforestation and pollution.It was the first ecological encyclical, and it affirmed the Argentine Jesuit, who in his youth studied to be a chemist, as an authoritative voice in the environmental movement. Later cited by presidents and scientists, the document inspired a global faith-based coalition to try to save God바카라 게임 웹사이트�s creation before it was too late.바카라 게임 웹사이트�I think he understood from the beginning that there are three relationships that had to be regenerated: Our relationship with God, our relationship with the created world and our relationship with our fellow creatures,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said papal biographer Austen Ivereigh.It wasn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t always so.Video below: World mourns Pope FrancisA conversion in 2007 in BrazilFrancis had a steep learning curve on the environment, just as he did with clergy sexual abuse, which he initially dismissed as overblown. He himself pointed to a 2007 meeting of Latin American and Caribbean bishops in Aparecida, Brazil, as the moment of his ecological awakening.There, the then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio had been elected to draft the conference바카라 게임 웹사이트�s final document, and was under pressure to include calls from Brazilian bishops to highlight the plight of the Amazon.Bergoglio, the dour-faced archbishop of urbane Buenos Aires, didn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t get what all the fuss was about.바카라 게임 웹사이트�At first I was a bit annoyed,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Francis wrote in the 2020 book 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Let Us Dream.바카라 게임 웹사이트� 바카라 게임 웹사이트�It struck me as excessive.바카라 게임 웹사이트�By the end of the meeting, Bergoglio was converted and convinced.The final Aparecida document devoted several sections to the environment: It denounced multinational extraction companies that plundered the region바카라 게임 웹사이트�s resources at the expense of the poor. It warned of melting glaciers and the effects of lost biodiversity. It cast the ravaging of the planet as an assault on God바카라 게임 웹사이트�s divine plan that violated the biblical imperative to 바카라 게임 웹사이트�cultivate and care바카라 게임 웹사이트� for creation.Those same issues would later find prominence in 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Praised Be,바카라 게임 웹사이트� which took its name from the repeated first line of the 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Canticle of the Creatures,바카라 게임 웹사이트� one of the best-known poetic songs of the pontiff바카라 게임 웹사이트�s nature-loving namesake, St. Francis of Assisi.They also would be highlighted in the Amazon Synod that Francis called at the Vatican in 2019, a meeting of bishops and Indigenous peoples specifically to address how the Catholic Church could and should respond to the plight of the Amazon and its impoverished people.바카라 게임 웹사이트�I think the pope바카라 게임 웹사이트�s most important contribution was to insist on the ethical aspect of the debate about climate justice,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Giuseppe Onofrio, head of Greenpeace Italy, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�that the poor were those who contributed the least to pollution and the climate crisis, but were paying the highest price.바카라 게임 웹사이트�How the environment affects all other illsIn many ways, those same issues would also come to define much of Francis바카라 게임 웹사이트� papacy. He came to view the environmental cause as encapsulating nearly all the other ills afflicting humanity in the 21st century: poverty, social and economic injustice, migration and what he called the 바카라 게임 웹사이트�throwaway culture바카라 게임 웹사이트� 바카라 게임 웹사이트� a melting pot of problems that he was convinced could only be addressed holistically.Some of Francis' strongest calls to protect the environment would come on or around Earth Day, celebrated April 22.바카라 게임 웹사이트�For some time now, we have been becoming more aware that nature deserves to be protected, even if only because human interaction with God바카라 게임 웹사이트�s biodiversity must take care with utmost care and respect,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Francis said in a video message released on Earth Day in 2021.Cardinal Michael Czerny, the Canadian Jesuit whom Francis would later entrust with the ecological dossier, said the 2007 meeting in Brazil had a big impact on Francis.바카라 게임 웹사이트�In Aparecida, listening to so many different bishops talking about what was deteriorating, but also what the people were suffering, I think really impressed him,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Czerny.Czerny바카라 게임 웹사이트�s mandate encapsulated Francis바카라 게임 웹사이트� vision of 바카라 게임 웹사이트�integral ecology,바카라 게임 웹사이트� covering the environment, the Vatican바카라 게임 웹사이트�s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, its charitable Caritas federation, migration advocacy, economic development and its antinuclear campaign.The multifaceted approach was intentional, Czerny said, to establish new thinking about ecology that went beyond the politicized concept of 바카라 게임 웹사이트�green바카라 게임 웹사이트� advocacy to something bigger and nonnegotiable: humanity바카라 게임 웹사이트�s relationship with God and creation.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Everything is connected,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Francis liked to say.A legacy from Pope Paul VIHe was by no means the first pope to embrace the ecological cause. According to the book 바카라 게임 웹사이트�The Popes and Ecology,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Pope Paul VI was the first pontiff to refer to an 바카라 게임 웹사이트�ecological catastrophe바카라 게임 웹사이트� in a 1970 speech to a U.N. food agency.St. John Paul II largely ignored the environment, though he did write the first truly ecological manifesto: his 1990 World Day of Peace message, which linked consumer lifestyle with environmental decay.Pope Benedict XVI was known as the 바카라 게임 웹사이트�green pope,바카라 게임 웹사이트� primarily for having installed solar panels on the Vatican auditorium and starting a tree-planting campaign to offset the greenhouse gas emissions of Vatican City.Francis issued an update to 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Praised Be바카라 게임 웹사이트� in 2023, just before the U.N. climate conference in Dubai. While consistent with the original text, the update was even more dire and showed Francis had grown more urgent in his alarm.He became even more willing to point fingers at the world바카라 게임 웹사이트�s biggest emitters of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, especially the U.S. And he called out those, including in the church, who denied the human causes of global warming.바카라 게임 웹사이트�He showed that he had an understanding of what was happening in the world, and he saw the world from the point of view, as he was like to say, of the peripheries, of the margins,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Ivereigh, the papal biographer. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�He brought the margins into the center.바카라 게임 웹사이트�