Actress Juliette Binoche and fellow French environmentalists have received encouragement from Pope Francis at a private Vatican meeting where he told them people should not lose hope even when the condition of the planet can appear “catastrophic”.
The urgency for such commitment was made plain by the Covid-19 pandemic, Francis said. “We understand to what point we are tied one to the other, inserted in a world whose future we share, and that maltreating it cannot help but bring grave consequences, not only environmental, but social and human,” the pontiff told his guests.
Binoche and the other activists work with the French Conference of Bishops on environmental themes, which were highlighted by Francis in a 2015 encyclical which exhorted
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