(CNSNews.com) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) speaking at a press conference at the COP 26 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland said: “This planet is God’s creation and we have a moral responsibility to be good stewards of it.”
“I have great confidence, as President Obama said and others have said here, in young people,” Pelosi said. “The future is theirs. We have a responsibility to transfer our planet to them in a responsible way.
“So, we prayerfully approach those people–because they are many people of faith, as am I, who believe that this planet is God’s creation and we have a moral responsibility to be good stewards of it.
“But, as I say,” she said, “those storms hitting home are such an important message.”
Here is a transcript of the part of Pelosi’s statement at the press conference in Glasgow where she said “this planet is God’s creation and we have a moral responsibility to be good stewards of it.”
Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “If I may just say, the most eloquent argument about climate change is the vicious storms that many of these people have suffered, the wildfires that are existing in the West, the storms in the South and the – of the East Coast, as well, the droughts that people are feeling in the country. That’s more eloquent than anything that we can say that something else is happening, and it’s happening more intensely because of human behavior that must be changed.
“Again, overwhelmingly, the American people understand the climate crisis and are supportive of actions for us to manage it and to solve it. I have great confidence, as President Obama said and others have said here, in young people. The future is theirs. We have a responsibility to transfer our planet to them in a responsible way.
“So, we prayerfully approach those people – because they are many people of faith, as am I, who believe that this planet is God’s creation and we have a moral responsibility to be good stewards of it. But, as I say, those storms hitting home are such an important message.”
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