I was incredibly touched by the SUPERB and inspiring speech that Pope Francis gave yesterday at the United Nations. Imperative actions must be taken now before it’s too late by all of us. “The ecological crisis and the large scale destruction of biodiversity, can threaten the very existence of the human species”. The true “right of the environment” does exist, for two reasons. First because we human beings are part of the environment. We live in communion with it, since the environment itself entails ethical limits which human activity must acknowledge and respect. Man, for all his remarkable gifts, which are signs of a uniqueness which transcends the spheres of physics and biology, is at the same time a part of these spheres. He possesses a body shaped by physical, chemical and biological elements, and can only survive and develop if the ecological environment is favorable. Any harm done to the environment, therefore, is harm done to humanity. Second, because every creature, particularly a living creature, has an intrinsic value, in it’s existence, its life, its beauty and its interdependence with other creatures”.
