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His Holiness Pope Francis | Our moral imperative to act on climate change — and 3 steps we can take

(Turn on subtitles, available in 9 languages, using the CC button in the bottom right of your screen.) Take action on climate change at . The global climate crisis will require us to transform the way we act, says His Holiness Pope Francis. Delivering a visionary TED Talk from Vatican City, the spiritual leader proposes…

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The global climate crisis will require us to transform the way we act, says His Holiness Pope Francis. Delivering a visionary TED Talk from Vatican City, the spiritual leader proposes three courses of action to address the world’s growing environmental problems and economic inequalities, illustrating how all of us can work together, across faiths and societies, to protect the Earth and promote the dignity of everyone. “The future is built today,” he says. “And it is not built in isolation, but rather in community and in harmony.”

This talk was part of the Countdown Global Launch on 10.10.2020. (Watch the full event here: .) Countdown is TED’s global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. The goal: to build a better future by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, in the race to a zero-carbon world. Get involved at

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  1. joseph mendez

    October 11, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    you should have purge the house of evil priest who prey on the innocent.

  2. Joey Foreman

    October 11, 2020 at 7:54 pm

    New World Order is here.

    • Kevin

      October 11, 2020 at 11:22 pm

      Because he’s talking about people comming together to care for our planet? Your comment makes no sense take off the tin hat and quit sucking up to your corporate overlords

  3. de caesaris

    October 11, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    Ti prego,. Nao dimenticrla de Joao de Teixeria de Faria di Brasil..Elli sufera para Deus! Non dimenticarlo, Padrone. ✌️.Ho escribido.um rumano, ma no gipsie. Te prego, faz una cosa paraelli !!!

  4. doulos Christou

    October 11, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    His holiness? He is not holy, only God is holy. Like all of us, he is a sinner and entitied to his prejudice and personal opinions.

  5. Alpha& Omega

    October 11, 2020 at 8:04 pm

    Doesn’t matter what is said or by who says it regarding human waste polluting our planet The human race is a cancer upon planet earth the only chance earth has is a nuclear war killing off the human race only then can the earth mend itself..

  6. Rafael Santos

    October 11, 2020 at 8:28 pm

    I’m a 30yo atheist man from Brazil and I agree.

  7. Katina Sims

    October 11, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    This message is given directly for the Pope. God spoke this message for him.
    Who thinks they have the power to cause departure amoung my children to hold as thy possession being as if you are God’s counsellor, and you are teaching God. The nations are as a drop in the bucket and the counter as dust that can not balance. I taketh up the isles as a very little thing. Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle, thou whom the March of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. I will make the waste of mountains and hills, and dry up all the herbs, and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beast there of sufficient for burnt offering. All nations before God are nothing; and they are counted to God less than nothing for their vanity. Amen

  8. Shirl the Curl

    October 11, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    And all the world wondered after the beast…. 2 Peter 3 vs 10 is the real climate change and it’s closer than you think.

  9. dacosta0656

    October 11, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    This communist heretic is 100% not Catholic

  10. Blue Avian

    October 11, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    The Pope is really the 👿 in disguise.

  11. Linda Shalom Baht Y'shua

    October 11, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    ROME NEVER CHANGES.SELL ALL YOUR RICHES AND THERE WILL BE NO SOCIAL INEQUALITY.TEAR DOWN YOUR WALL WHILE AT IT.

  12. Eliaz Ruis

    October 11, 2020 at 9:59 pm

    🙄 who cares what a guy in a costume has to say especially when he believes in mythical beings?

    • Laura K.

      October 11, 2020 at 10:35 pm

      People that trust in him and are of faith, it’s the same as actors using their platforms

  13. JER JOS

    October 11, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    We must pray, repent, ask for forgiveness and forgive. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through him. Listen to the trumpet from heaven. May God protects us all.

  14. Katina Sims

    October 11, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    Do not be deceived this is not about climate change this is really about the Kingdom of God. O’ Israel Jacobs Lineage the true inheritance of earth. We are in a spiritual war. Although we that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. The Pope’s mouth is full of cursing and deceit, and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity. That God said that which cometh out of the his mouth, will defile him. For he that loves life, will see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain
    deceit, after tradition of men after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ. God spoke that his heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked. Who can know it? For that they are such servers not of our Lord Jesus Christ but of their belly; by God words and fair speeches that deceive the hearts of the simple. Amen

    • frank boase

      October 11, 2020 at 11:52 pm

      Think we all know that the established religions are dealers of lies

  15. C Ro

    October 11, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    “Power” Ok Palpatine.

    • Soqquadro

      October 12, 2020 at 12:26 am

      You’re one pope behind man

  16. JKDP Pratt

    October 11, 2020 at 10:55 pm

    SATAN IS SPEAKING HERE!

  17. Kevin

    October 11, 2020 at 11:05 pm

    Pope Francis has been one of the most socially grounded religious leaders we’ve had in centuries. He understands what the real problems our world is facing and has made it his mission to address them

  18. Henry Martinez

    October 11, 2020 at 11:13 pm

    The pope is the devil

  19. gaming with deku

    October 11, 2020 at 11:34 pm

    dad hah😅

  20. Jim DeArruda

    October 11, 2020 at 11:40 pm

    The sanest man speaking today

  21. Joe Harte

    October 11, 2020 at 11:49 pm

    How TED has sunken into the morass. I presume this comes under E for Entertainment, because it’s got damn all to do with Technology or Design. His Holiness! How long before Her Majesty, or Dear Leader?

  22. RevenantCheetosx

    October 11, 2020 at 11:56 pm

    Imagine if we reduced the heat from the friction made by priests on little boys.

    • aryan agnihotri

      October 12, 2020 at 12:39 am

      Lmao

  23. Davids Vlogs

    October 12, 2020 at 12:29 am

    He’s not holy only god is holy. He’s the antichrist

    • Fritz Esch.

      October 12, 2020 at 1:09 am

      More like ecologist anticapitalist

  24. JayPuff

    October 12, 2020 at 1:07 am

    Why did you refer to him as “his holiness” please be impartial we are not all Christian.

  25. Sim Il-Kung

    October 12, 2020 at 11:58 am

    Well, they could start by not banning condoms and not telling people to have many kids.
    That is the worst thing for the climate – well but that’s Religion, you only listen to reason if it’s not in conflict with your faith.

    • Angelic Doctor

      October 12, 2020 at 1:55 pm

      and you could start by reading and understanding Catholic teaching for the first time in your life – just saying

    • Sim Il-Kung

      October 12, 2020 at 10:11 pm

      @Angelic Doctor You could start by not assuming that your opponents aren’t informed about the topic.

  26. filippe999

    October 12, 2020 at 1:13 pm

    I wonder how the people at TED reacted to the Pope himself sending them a video

  27. Andrew Siegel

    October 12, 2020 at 1:20 pm

    I hope they don’t turn off the comment section. This is entertaining.

  28. Michele White

    October 12, 2020 at 1:41 pm

    So well and simply put. Grazie, Papa.

    • Connor Goodwin

      October 12, 2020 at 4:53 pm

      Hes a false prophet

  29. dmfuerte

    October 12, 2020 at 3:16 pm

    I miss when the Pope of the Catholic Church preached the good news of Jesus Christ and not climate change.

  30. ozgoodphotos

    October 12, 2020 at 3:35 pm

    Couldn’t understand a word he was saying but I bet it was direct from god.

  31. 2ndlook1

    October 12, 2020 at 3:37 pm

    this is the doctrine/religion of the new age and water will be their god

  32. shirlee graham

    October 12, 2020 at 3:49 pm

    Then give up your wealth to help out ! The moneys you steal from the poor to buy their way to heaven is sinful to say the least. But no it’s us the common folk that get blamed for the wrongs of the world, we are but slave to the rich masters of this world. You rich folks own everything, all the corporations, factories and land, you do all the damage to the world. We are forced to work for you to survive, this is a greed and power grab. But the true Father our Lord God will set things right, I hope you are ready. I will pray for you all, it’s not too late. Blessings

  33. The Wing Junkie

    October 12, 2020 at 4:42 pm

    This man is straight from satan himself

  34. V Miles

    October 12, 2020 at 4:46 pm

    They really do believe that this is about climate change and not the truth. What is happening upon the earth is God’s doing. Revenge is here on the behalf of His precious Jewels. The ones who was taken into captivity in all nations throughout the 4 corners of the earth as slaves. They are still oppressed today, their identity was stolen in 1948 and a land professed to be the promise land to which it is not- or there would be peace on earth today. All nations must acknowledge that nation and bless it as it is written, Israel is not a place – but a nation of Yahweh’s chosen people, from Genesis to Revelations.

  35. Connor Goodwin

    October 12, 2020 at 4:52 pm

    He is a false prophet

  36. Catbus Driver

    October 12, 2020 at 4:59 pm

    Just the person to talk about morals and rights. Or science. Really says a lot about the people who hired him.

  37. आदित्य Aditya मेहेंदळे Mehendale

    October 12, 2020 at 6:14 pm

    What the pope says, we all knew, all along. But when the pope says it, it works as a wake-up-slap-in-the-face to populist political-leaders of at least 1/3rd of the world.

  38. Kathy Bergman

    October 12, 2020 at 7:39 pm

    It is wearying for a ‘man of God’ to involve himself constantly in politics. He can’t even get his theology right. “”Pope Francis has written a long, open letter to the founder of La Repubblica newspaper, Eugenio Scalfari, stating that non-believers would be forgiven by God if they followed their consciences………..Sin, even for those who have no faith, exists when people disobey their conscience.” Sin is a result of Original Sin, and any pope should know this.

    Pope Francis? Even our consciences are tainted by Original Sin and you should know this. If we follow our consciences we will end up following this sin-cursed world and it’s ways — not our Trinitarian God. The Christian faith is NOT about following our conscience. It is about Jesus dying on the cross to save us from our corrupt consciences and from the sin we inherited from Adam, as well as sins we commit, etc. The Word given to us in the Bible teaches us correct doctrine. Please do not make up false doctrines of your own, Pope Francis. You are misleading people, and that’s not cool.

  39. pghlady

    October 12, 2020 at 7:46 pm

    Keep religion out of politics and politics out of religion.

  40. Sean Tracy

    October 12, 2020 at 8:17 pm

    SO any Catholic that votes for Trump, who has turned back over 100 Environmental regulations, doesn’t care what the Pope says should go to one of those “waiting for the End Times” churches.

  41. Edward Tobie Mejia

    October 12, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    Say what you want, but he’s right. Grazie Papa Francesco

  42. pace sole

    October 12, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    Per carità! Ma va!

  43. Alec Castellano

    October 12, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    This is a call to action. Not just to Catholics but to the human family. We are entrusted by fate to care for our “common home.” Our planet, Earth. Climate Change is a direct consequence of human activities and it is our responsibility as stewards of Earth to care for it so that it may be sustainable for future generations.
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  44. The Scorpion Formula

    October 12, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    Anyone else seen videos of this guy slapping up the public…

    Not sure about him or his ideologies… behind the scenes…

    Don’t think those popes know morality

  45. argban

    October 12, 2020 at 10:59 pm

    Hola Jorge. Saludos desde buenos aires, Argentina. Buen punto el cambio climatico!

  46. Joseph Moore

    October 13, 2020 at 12:08 am

    Holy Father, please talk about the clerical crisis, like McCarrick and Pell scandals, the New Orleans desecration of the altar with the prostitutes, Coco Puff’s orgy in the Vatican, Pachamama, and Peter’s Pence theft. Is it all true? You warn us about the environment. Big business is to blame, not us sheeples! We can’t tear down a forest or sell a million straws or dump a zillion needles in the ocean…. are you telling us to control the population? Did you know that one volcanic eruption causes more than a year’s worth of greenhouse gasses every minute? Please tell us to go to Mass on Sundays! Are we apostate now?

  47. Felix Vecchiarelli

    October 13, 2020 at 12:19 am

    In his October 3rd encyclical he says what he believes is the real solution.
    “In the power of the risen Lord, she [Mary] wants to give birth to a new world, where all of us are brothers and sisters….” page 70, “Fratelli Tutti”.
    A major deception is about to hit the world, folks. A demon in disguise is gonna appear. Hope you have been studying prophecy!!

  48. Intellectualmrjohns SurfinG

    October 13, 2020 at 1:03 am

    FRANCE!!! DO NOT RECOGNIZE DONAL J TRUMP AS NOTHING!! IN EUROPE.REUNITE WITH EUROOEAN COMMINITY AND MAKE IT CERTIFYED!! NON TI SEDERE CIN QUESTO DITTATORE. ASSASSINO.

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