{"id":40889,"date":"2025-04-23T13:14:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=40889"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:14:47","slug":"our-moral-imperative-to-act-on-climate-change-and-3-steps-we-can-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/our-moral-imperative-to-act-on-climate-change-and-3-steps-we-can-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Our moral imperative to act on climate change &#8212; and 3 steps we can take"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-ted wp-block-embed-ted wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"His Holiness Pope Francis: Our moral imperative to act on climate change -- and 3 steps we can take\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/lang\/en\/his_holiness_pope_francis_our_moral_imperative_to_act_on_climate_change_and_3_steps_we_can_take\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His Holiness Pope Francis\u00a0| Countdown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 October 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The global climate crisis will require us to transform the way we act, says His Holiness Pope Francis. Delivering a visionary TED Talk from Vatican City, the spiritual leader proposes three courses of action to address the world&#8217;s growing environmental problems and economic inequalities, illustrating how all of us can work together, across faiths and societies, to protect the Earth and promote the dignity of everyone. &#8220;The future is built today,&#8221; he says. &#8220;And it is not built in isolation, but rather in community and in harmony.&#8221; (In Italian with subtitles. Watch this talk in English at go.ted.com\/popefrancis20 and Spanish at go.ted.com\/papafrancisco)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to use TED Talks in your organization?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a id=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/license-requests.ted.com\/\"><strong>Start here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/climate+change\">Climate Change<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/environment\">Environment<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/sustainability\">Sustainability<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/education\">Education<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/social+change\">Social Change<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/creativity\">Creativity<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/community\">Community<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/religion\">Religion<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/leadership\">Leadership<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/christianity\">Christianity<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/countdown\">Countdown<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the speaker<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/pope_francis\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/pope_francis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pi.tedcdn.com\/r\/pe.tedcdn.com\/images\/ted\/790e3247f53f44568c9c345cdf9b3b3516e15966_254x191.jpg?u%5Br%5D=2&amp;u%5Bs%5D=0.5&amp;u%5Ba%5D=0.8&amp;u%5Bt%5D=0.03&amp;quality=80&amp;w=3840\" alt=\"His Holiness Pope Francis\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/pope_francis\">His Holiness Pope Francis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/pope_francis\">Bishop of Rome<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/pope_francis\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See speaker profile<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Francis was the head of the Roman Catholic Church and a strong advocate of global action against climate change, to which he devoted his powerful 2015 encyclical &#8220;Laudato Si&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Holiness Pope Francis\u00a0| Countdown \u2022 October 2020 The global climate crisis will require us to transform the way we act, says His Holiness Pope Francis. 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