We have to understand state the Comece experts that climate change "is just one of the symptoms of the non-sustainability of the lifestyle and the production and consumption models of the industrialised world"; therefore, the "challenge of ecology is not only a pressing urgency to reorganise the current production models, but it is, first and foremost, the adoption of new lifestyles, less dependent on material goods and more based on cultural and relational assets. The Catholic Church and all the Christian traditions are best suited to spread such changes", "through effective initiatives and through their own example". Christians, on their side, will have "to distance themselves from the prevalent lifestyle of our countries, which is excessively oriented to consumption". We need, goes on the Report, "a more global view of human life" and "a responsible relationship with the areas in which we live"; however, a significant change in our lifestyle "will be possible on condition deliberate ‘moderation’ is accepted as a focal virtue". "Promoting the concept of moderation concludes the document is not aimed to lower but actually to promote a better quality of life"; it does not mean "giving up the longing for material goods, it means making a distinction between the essential and the unnecessary".” “
