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"We call upon the world's leaders to take action to halt the destructive changes to the global climate that are being caused by human activity," he added. "We must be spokespeople for an ecological ethic that reminds the world that it is not ours to use for our own convenience. It is God's gift of love to us, and we must return that love by protecting it and all that is in it."
"The whole world is a sacrament," Bartholomeos declared, evoking a key tenet of Orthodox theology, which recognizes the divinity inherent in all creation. "The entire cosmos is a burning bush of God's uncreated energies. And humankind stands as a priest before the altar of creation, as microcosm and mediator if only we have the eyes of faith to see it. But realistically, we also know that this vision has been blurred. For we have presumed to control the order of things and have destroyed the hierarchy of creation. We have lost the dimension of beauty and have come to a spiritual impasse."
"To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin," Bartholomeos said. "For humans to cause species to become extinct, to degrade the integrity of the Earth by causing changes in its climate, stripping its natural forests or destroying its wetlands or contaminating Earth's waters, land, air and life with poisonous substances: these are sins.
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