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Home » Social Spirituality Blog » We Have to Talk About Climate Change – Cardinal Ribat

We Have to Talk About Climate Change – Cardinal Ribat

  • by Sandie
  • 27/02/2017
"The time is either now or never." Cardinal John Ribat on climate change, 11 February 2017.

Cardinal John Ribat says that climate change is an urgent issue for the people of Papua New Guinea, and the whole of the Pacific. Cardinal Ribat drove his point home saying that the issue is a more urgent than discussing Amoris Laetitia. While there will be time to talk about Church teaching on family life, time is running out on climate change.

Speaking to reporters in Rome on 11 February 2017, Cardinal Ribat explained: “It is really the biggest issue for us. We cannot keep quiet about it. We have to come out with it,” he said, noting that the “king tides, king waves” and rough winds “belting” the island nation are already forcing many people from their homes.

These are the things “we cannot stop. They continue to come, and they are more powerful than us,” the cardinal said, explaining that while temporary sea walls have been set up, “they won’t hold.”

“Our situation, it’s timely, you either talk about it or you see these people finished…There’s not timing for it. The time is either now or never.”

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