Pope Francis urged young people on Thursday to fight climate change. He called for an “integral ecology” that melds environmental protection with the fight against poverty and other social problems.
“We must recognize the dramatic and urgent need to care for our common home. Yet this cannot be done without a real change of heart,” he said during an open-air address to students at Lisbon’s Catholic University on the second day of his visit to Portugal.
He also affirmed that “We cannot be satisfied with mere palliative measures or timid and ambiguous compromises.
The leader of the Roman Catholics underlined that people need to align the tragedy of desertification with that of refugees.
“Instead of polarised approaches, we need a unified vision, a vision capable of embracing the whole.”
