The Vatican on Friday called
on international leaders to listen to the young people in Italy
and around the world who staged the latest in a a series of
school strikes on Friday calling for action to address the
climate crisis.
"We need to appeal to political leaders to be far more
courageous and to listen to the dramatic cry raised by the
scientific community and the climate youth movement," said
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, the prefect of the
Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
"Their frustration and anger towards our generation is clear.
We risk robbing them of their future," added Turkson in a
message on the fourth anniversary of Pope Francis's
environmental encyclical, Laudato Si'.
Students marched in Rome and many other cities as part of the
Fridays for Future protests.
"Today we are taking to the streets to change the system that
it taking us towards climate disaster," said Giacomo Cossu, the
national coordinator of the Rete della Conoscenza (Awareness
Network).
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