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Vatican is going solar, Pope to transition City to 100% green energy | Pope Francis has now asked Vatican authorities to begin constructing a solar plant.
Pope Francis announces his plans to transition the Vatican to 100% solar power to support climate change efforts.
The 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.” He opened his latest apostolic letter by harkening back to Laudato Si’ which encouraged humanity to become aware of its environmental footprint, citing fossil fuels as a persuasive threat to the planet. 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 a key role.”
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