WEBVTT 00:02.000 --> 00:07.140 We have moved and changed our world and now we need to 00:07.140 --> 00:13.320 change our behavior and it's possible. We do not have to continue doing things as 00:13.320 --> 00:18.440 we've been doing it because if we do then we're on a hiding to nothing and we 00:18.440 --> 00:23.560 destroy the very gift that we've been given. So just like the three mice we 00:23.560 --> 00:28.880 can educate ourselves, educate ourselves into new practices and I'm 00:28.880 --> 00:34.920 inviting now Salvatore to tell you some of the new practices that might apply in 00:34.920 --> 00:40.080 that case. So please give a warm welcome to Salvatore. 00:46.520 --> 00:53.520 Thank you father. Good morning. My name is Salvatore Coppola-Finegan. I've 00:53.520 --> 00:58.840 dedicated the best part of the last 15 years of my life to humanity's social 00:58.840 --> 01:05.600 ecological and climate crisis. As an academic, as a scientist, as a community 01:05.600 --> 01:12.520 organizer, as a technician writing policies and laws, as a Catholic, as a 01:12.520 --> 01:19.200 husband and as a FATHER. From the dirt roads, contaminated water, human rights 01:19.200 --> 01:25.240 abuses, conflicts of Central America, to the parliament of Costa Rica, the coastal 01:25.240 --> 01:30.280 communities of South East Asia, to advising the Church in the Global South, 01:30.280 --> 01:37.520 all the way to the negotiation halls of the United Nations COPs. 10 years ago 01:37.520 --> 01:43.320 the world signed the Paris Agreement. We all agreed that we needed to stop global 01:43.320 --> 01:50.800 warming. 10 years ago Pope Francis published his historic letter: LAUDATO SI'. 01:50.800 --> 01:57.400 He appealed not just to Catholics, nor just to Christians. It was a 01:57.400 --> 02:01.200 universal to all... 02:01.200 --> 02:09.300 To look after our Common Home. A letter grounded not just in Church teachings but also 02:09.300 --> 02:13.720 drafted with the leading scientists from around the world. 02:13.720 --> 02:20.400 The letter reminds us in strong terms that we must listen and act on the cry of the earth 02:20.400 --> 02:22.840 and the cry of the poor. 02:22.840 --> 02:30.480 The climate emergency, biodiversity collapse, desertification: they all hit the vulnerable 02:30.480 --> 02:32.040 hardest. 02:32.040 --> 02:34.880 The Global South but not only! 02:34.880 --> 02:41.880 And statistically amongst those affected are women, children, the elderly and those with 02:41.880 --> 02:43.520 disabilities. 02:43.520 --> 02:48.760 These are our mothers, grandmothers, our brothers and sisters, our children. 02:48.760 --> 02:56.840 How will we forgive ourselves if we do not act while we still have little time? 02:56.840 --> 03:00.640 In recent years, we have registered too much global warming. 03:00.640 --> 03:02.920 These are not numbers on a thermometer. 03:02.920 --> 03:07.920 These are more hurricanes, stronger floods, mudslides. 03:07.920 --> 03:12.200 This is famine, conflict and migration. 03:12.200 --> 03:17.040 Our democracies are also at peril from these crises. 03:17.040 --> 03:20.720 In Luxembourg we are immensely privileged. 03:20.720 --> 03:29.600 On the 17th of Februar, just 48 days into the 365 of the year, we had already used up 03:29.600 --> 03:33.360 our quota of the earth's resources. 03:33.360 --> 03:41.160 Every day since the 17th of February we are living on the backs of others. 03:41.160 --> 03:47.640 We, here, collectively, as guardians of creation are not doing enough. 03:47.640 --> 03:54.120 I am acutely aware that many of us simply do not have the time to spare for this kind 03:54.120 --> 03:55.120 of work. 03:55.120 --> 04:00.480 However, I also believe that many of you are very sensitive to these issues. 04:00.480 --> 04:06.040 I believe that you do care about maintaining the conditions for life to thrive on this 04:06.040 --> 04:13.400 planet. For our children, for our grandchildren and for the rest of creation. 04:13.400 --> 04:21.320 So now I ask you to put one hand on your heart and with the other one to help us. 04:21.320 --> 04:26.880 Those who can, please donate to our cause generously. 04:26.880 --> 04:32.080 The donations go further in the Global South, so let's leverage this. 04:32.080 --> 04:35.800 We need to fund projects that we want to start now in these months. 04:35.800 --> 04:41.880 In Latin America, Africa and Asia, projects led in our community too. 04:41.880 --> 04:43.840 Stewards of creation. 04:43.840 --> 04:46.440 The indigenous as well as us. 04:46.440 --> 04:51.480 Projects that are always accompanied and supported by Catholic missionaries and communities 04:51.480 --> 04:53.560 like us. 04:53.560 --> 05:01.000 And those of you who cannot donate? Ask your institutions to fund our efforts. 05:01.000 --> 05:04.280 Give us platforms to speak from. 05:04.280 --> 05:09.120 Open up spaces in which we can meet and explain these issues. 05:21.720 --> 05:25.080 I'm always happy to offer my of time. 05:25.080 --> 05:31.160 Give us a chance then to spread hope and to inspire! 05:31.160 --> 05:37.480 Amplify and multiply our message of alarm, truth, but also of hope! 05:37.480 --> 05:41.920 Listen to your moral conscience in your decisions at work. 05:41.920 --> 05:43.720 What are we funding? 05:43.720 --> 05:46.760 And in your own financial decisions too. 05:46.760 --> 05:50.400 Vote and do the right thing in board meetings. 05:50.400 --> 05:54.000 Organize politically and vote accordingly. 05:54.000 --> 05:58.600 We'll have lots of examples of everyday actions on our website. 05:58.600 --> 06:00.480 Things like using your car 06:00.480 --> 06:08.840 one day less a week, eating meat one day less a week, buying less new clothes this 06:08.840 --> 06:19.560 year, consuming less plastic, stop wasting food, buying and consuming less! 06:19.560 --> 06:25.680 Everyday actions for all of us. So please share our message with others, let others 06:25.680 --> 06:32.160 know, spread this consciousness and tell people the truth, find people to help us 06:32.160 --> 06:38.040 because our pockets are empty and in my case they always have been doing this 06:38.040 --> 06:42.880 kind of work. So those of you who can please give us the means we need to work 06:42.880 --> 06:50.160 on your behalf and we can still redeem ourselves, we can still manage it, we have 06:50.160 --> 06:57.720 time to hear those cries and to act accordingly. So may God bless us all in 06:57.720 --> 07:02.280 our Common Mission. Thank you Father, thank you everybody.