"Climate change is a global problem with serious implications, environmental, social, economic, political and for the distribution of goods."

"The Lord always forgives. We men forgive sometimes. Nature never forgives."

"The environmental crisis and social crisis are not two separate crises, but one complex crisis."

"The world cannot be understood without the poor. The poor are the treasure of the Church."

"We are living in a culture of waste. This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste of food, which is even more despicable when many men and women, children and elderly, still suffer …"