The Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew addressed the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Karlsruhe, Germany, through a video message.

His speech about Christianity and “threats to planet” is published by orthodoxtimes.

“The greatest threat to our planet is not the novel coronavirus but climate change. The growing but neglected toll from rising global temperatures will actually eclipse the current number of deaths from all the infectious diseases combined if climate change is not constrained,” the Patriarch of Constantinople commented.