One cannot be a true environmentalist and at the same time be pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia or pro-death.
Said positively, real environmentalists are ardently pro-life, and vehemently anti-abortion, anti-death.
This makes intuitive sense to me and helps me understand myself. I have always felt this way and have always advocated for life and for the environment. I just haven’t ever heard a pope put the two together as has Benedict.
Take a look at Pope Benedict’s comments in this regard:
“If there is a lack of respect for the right to life and to a natural death, if human conception, gestation and birth are made artificial, if human embryos are sacrificed to research, the conscience of society ends up losing the concept of human ecology and, along with it, that of environmental ecology. It is contradictory to insist that future generations respect the natural environment when our educational systems and laws do not help them respect themselves….Our duties toward the environment are linked to our duties to the human person.” (bold lettering mine)— Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate, 51
