Pope Francis isn’t just trying to pick a fight with climate deniers. With the release of “Laudato Si,” his sweeping, formal document on “care for our common home,” the Holy Father has some choice words for just about everyone — and he is not pleased with the way we’ve been treating our planet.

Better to say, he’s disgusted.

Beyond his recognition that climate change is “one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day,” his call for the phasing out of fossil fuels and his demand that rich nations step up and pay their social debt to the poor who are disproportionately suffering global warming’s impacts, the pope touches, with clarity and passion, on nearly every environmental issue facing the world today. Seriously, if the papacy weren’t a lifelong position, I’d be worried he’s coming after my job.

Here are some of his best riffs:

Landfills and pollution

“Account must also be taken of the pollution produced by residue, including dangerous waste present in different areas. Each year hundreds of millions of tons of waste are generated, much of it non-biodegradable, highly toxic and radioactive, from homes and businesses, from construction and demolition sites, from clinical, electronic and industrial sources. The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish. Industrial waste and chemical products utilized in cities and agricultural areas can lead to bioaccumulation in the organisms of the local population, even when levels of toxins in those places are low. Frequently no measures are taken until after people’s health has been irreversibly affected.”

Pesticides and environmental toxicants

“There is also pollution that affects everyone, caused by transport, industrial fumes, substances which contribute to the acidification of soil and water, fertilizers, insecticides, fungicides, herbicides and agrotoxins in general. Technology, which, linked to business interests, is presented as the only way of solving these problems, in fact proves incapable of seeing the mysterious network of relations between things and so sometimes solves one problem only to create others.”

Waste

“But our industrial system, at the end of its cycle of production and consumption, has not developed the capacity to absorb and reuse waste and by-products. We have not yet managed to adopt a circular model of production capable of preserving resources for present and future generations, while limiting as much as possible the use of non-renewable resources, moderating their consumption, maximizing their efficient use, reusing and recycling them. A serious consideration of this issue would be one way of counteracting the throwaway culture which affects the entire planet, but it must be said that only limited progress has been made in this regard.”