On Thursday, Pope Francis chastised the unfair access to food around the globe as ‘ornery’, stating that it endangered disaster for humanity if it is not corrected.

The 81-year-old Argentine pontiff, stated that while some have too much of food; whereas some has very less. Pope Francis is one of the world’s most revered voices on matters of poverty and social justice.

During a visit to the Rome-based U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, the Roman Catholic Church’s head made the statement. He was attending a session of the governing council of its sister agency, the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

The pope, who has often supported U.N. goals to deal with hunger and climate change stated that while many people don’t have food and are unsecured, on the other hand, some are drowning in surplus of food.

He added that this mean habit of discrimination is calamitous for the future of humanity.

In words mirroring the grievances of grassroots protest movements around the globe, Francis bemoaned that the rate of severe poverty depletion was slowing down; whereas the accumulation of riches in the hands of few is rapidly rising.

In the Pope’s home continent Latin America, the number of people in severe poverty raised in 2017 to the highest in almost a decade in spite of developments in social spending policies, as stated by an U.N. agency said last month.