The Pope brings together mayors on climate change

The event by Pope Francis, which brought together several mayors of the world, is of almost historic importance, for the will of the head of the Catholic Church to establish a dialogue with administering the town so it is the first public authority to direct contact with the more immediate problems of the population. It is the inauguration of a new dialectic, which represents a significant innovation in the panorama of the relations between the Vatican and public bodies; They are in fact bypassed the state authorities, to deepen the knowledge and debate with the institutions more peripheral. This is not a departure from normal diplomatic relations that the Vatican, as separate sovereign state, engaging with other countries in accordance with international law, but rather an exchange, for now at non-formal, on concrete issues but always with elected representatives of local institutions. This, by the population, the mayors as legitimate bearers of the will and local experiences, and in a way it enables the extraterritorial mission, at least in terms advisory. Besides the pope himself has attached particular importance to the perceptions and feelings of those who called the margins of the world, showing itself ahead of many national institutions, yet still too central to a vision of power, which is falling from above decisions He took on local communities, not often listen to their opinions and inconvenience. There were more than 60 mayors, representing cities, as smaller cities, invited just before the Pope to be encouraged to work in their communities, where the effects of a provision may be effectively applied. This element, in the will of the Pope, is opposed to the mere enactment of any principle by a central entity, which can be disregarded without the cooperation of the authorities peripherals. It is a vision that should be obvious, but in today's world, governed by political systems less and less willing to decentralization in favor of decisions imposed from the center, it is a kind of revolution. In this mode, the Pope seeks to usher in a new phase of the relationship, at least the church of Rome, able to focus on local communities; surely this is only the beginning, because the organizational difficulties seem enormous, however, it opens a road that promises to overthrow the balance of power of the many power centers, not only political, but also economic, financial and moral, governing remote communities. The path will not be easy, because it will not be hindered by these entities tend to centralize decision-making powers to the institutions subtracting devices, but this approach will only please those calls, and there are many, a greater spread of participatory democracy, which It calls for greater involvement of their own who is far away, in every sense, from the big decision-makers. In particular Pope Francis has requested local officials present at the Vatican to influence decisions on the summit dealing with the theme of the climate, the United Nations held in Paris later this year. The positions of the Pope on environmental issues have been known to last encyclical, where he condemned the danger of climate change desired by companies and often supported by governments, which have generated poverty and social inequality, with the emergence of phenomena of great bands misery that gather around their urban centers, often favored by forced migrations and still taking place with the hope to improve their social position. This involves a series of consequences that span broad types of social decay: crime, exploitation, prostitution and drug addiction. The methods addressed by Francis in the analysis of environmental degradation lead, so in the social, naturally, as an obvious consequence of unconditional exploitation of the planet's resources, which also happens with the injustice of the treatment reserved for humans. The Pope's vision combines environmental protection as a means of protecting society, especially the poorest, but that is not one simple sentence, what real program with objectives to be achieved, for which you need an involvement Bottom able to include and educate people as possible.