, an official proclamation of the Pope to the Roman Catholic Church, he diffused his instructions to the Vatican authorities to begin working with Italian officials to turn the Vatican into a green organization, as reported byThe Catholic Church first began publicly addressing climate change with Pope Paul VI, who expressed his concern in 1971 that humanity’s “exploitation of nature runs the risk of destroying it.
However, most notably and recently, under the stewardship of Benedict XVI two decades ago, the Vatican began diffusing plans to become the first “carbon neutral state” with the building of the Vatican Forest in Hungary in 2007. That has yet to materialize though.
In a suite of efforts, Pope Francis has now declared to the Vatican authorities to carry out the next step: to begin constructing aplant within the extraterritorial zone of Santa Maria di Galeria that will not only supply power to the Vatican radio station but the entirety of Vatican City with a population estimated around 825 people., at around a 0.0000443% output in 2022.
“There is a need to make a transition to a sustainable development model that reduces greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, setting the goal of climate neutrality. Mankind has the technological means to deal with this environmental transformation and its pernicious ethical, social, economic and political consequences, and, among these, solar energy plays aMaria Mocerino
Originally from LA, Maria Mocerino has been published in Business Insider, The Irish Examiner, The Rogue Mag, Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines, and now Interesting Engineering.