By Andrea Hargraves 
Faith and science go hand in hand in the fight against climate change, says Cardinal Pedro Barreto. Photo © Vatican Media
Peruvian Cardinal Pedro Barreto, president of the Ecclesiastical Conference of the Amazon Region, said that faith and science must work together to combat climate change and that the Church has begun “a process of advocacy evangelization in the Amazon region,” during a symposium on policies for the common good and peace, held in Lima last Friday 911. At the international symposium “Politics at the Service of the Common Good, Justice and Peace,” organized by the Institute for Christian Social Studies (IESC), Barreto appealed to the protection of the environment, a mission promoted by Pope Francis.
“We are embarking on a journey together, science and faith, to create a channel conducive to coordinated action between people, institutions and society as a whole, to seek through politics the common good, justice and peace, this channel,” the cardinal said.
Pedro Barreto said the Pope recently reiterated his call for the world to quickly abandon fossil fuels and make environmental protection a cornerstone of his service to the common good of humanity since the beginning of his papacy, according to the portal. Digital debt.
The cardinal called on humanity to “an ecological conversion that includes concern for the environment and integral care for people,” especially those who suffer the consequences of climate change, the poor and the marginalized in society, and to promote “an ecological vision that seeks the common good, justice and peace.”
Pedro Barreto also criticized the way we live in a world of “consumerism.” He said: “The immediate and urgent thing is to stop predatory and selfish activities to put an end to random deforestation, illegal mining and drug trafficking, especially in the Amazon region,” adding that it is necessary to unite efforts to rehabilitate politics to achieve these goals.
The president of the Amazonian Church Conference also defended that the greatest wealth of the Amazon basin is the indigenous people, “three million people with their cultures, their diversity of languages and their harmonious relationship with their natural environment.”
He said that the Church, “with the horizon of the integral environment,” had officially begun the process of “evangelization in the Amazon region.”