And as I look forward to other global issues that will require our attention this century-- food security, water security, home security, forced migration-- I see that we certainly do not know how we are going to solve those problems yet.
Since its violent inception through the systematic and planned ethnic cleansing of Palestine more than 60 years ago, Israel has inflicted endless death, injury, forced displacement, dispossession and destruction upon millions of Palestinians and other Arabs in neighboring countries.
In the second place, the English bourgeoisie has not only exploited the Irish poverty to keep down the working class in England by forced immigration of poor Irishmen, but it has also divided the proletariat into two hostile camps.
We should find ways in which our experiences with refugees and the displaced on one hand, and people who work for the protection of the environment on the other hand, could interact with those institutions, so that research results and advocacy have effective practical benefits for society and the environment.
This approach highlights that the most pressing threats to people do not come from interstate war, but from the emergencies that affect people every day, such as famine, disease, displacement, civil conflict and environmental degradation.
We should find ways in which our experiences with refugees, the poor, and the displaced, on the one hand, and people who work for the protection of the environment, on the other hand, could interact with those institutions so that the research result and advocacy would be of practical benefit to society and to the environment.
In the context of the massive forcible relocations of the past four years, hundreds of Shan civilians have been killed when they attempted to return to their farms, and thousands have been seized by the army to work without pay on roads and other projects.
The Pontiff also condemned the“scarce or absence of attention” that the crimes of the most powerful receive,“in particular the macro-delinquency of corporations”, which he describes as“crimes against humanity” when these lead to hunger, poverty, forced migration and death due to preventable diseases, environmental disasters and the murder of indigenous peoples.
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