Pope Francis has no patience for threats to abandon the Paris climate agreement

[Fish and Bread]

Link:

https://thinkprogress.org/pope-francis-paris-climate-deal-donald-trump-728cf2b45a06

 

[brinny]

He has a right to his opinion, doesn't he?

What specifically is he impatient about?

 

[Shiloh Raven]

Link:

https://thinkprogress.org/pope-francis-paris-climate-deal-donald-trump-728cf2b45a06

Good for him. I am pleased to see his commitment in being a good steward of creation and protecting the environment.

 

[Shiloh Raven]

Excerpted from the article:

Since assuming the role of pope, Francis has been a staunch proponent of environmental action. In the summer of 2015, he released an encyclical — one of the highest forms of official teaching that a pope can produce — on the environment. The result was a sweeping document, nearly 200 pages long, which flatly rejected conservative Christian justifications for exploiting the planet and defended environmental action on religious and moral grounds.

 

[rturner76]

Excerpted from the article:

Since assuming the role of pope, Francis has been a staunch proponent of environmental action. In the summer of 2015, he released an encyclical — one of the highest forms of official teaching that a pope can produce — on the environment. The result was a sweeping document, nearly 200 pages long, which flatly rejected conservative Christian justifications for exploiting the planet and defended environmental action on religious and moral grounds.

I didn't know he did that. Finally something that makes me proud to be a Catholic. Many Conservatives use the phrase in the Bible "Subdue the Earth" as license to strip he bare of her resources. Being stewards of the Earth we are not to exploit our position as the top species for financial and personal gain and comfort. It makes sens for the health of our Earth and it makes sense for our long term survival as a species. What if that volcano blows that sits under Yellowstone? We will have no ability to use solar power for hundreds to a thousand years, that's if we survive it. Why use all our fossil fuel now? We should use alternatives and save the fossil fuel should we have a situation on Earth where it is desolate and we have no sun, wind, or hydro-electric to count on. I know we don't produce enough without coal but we can power down. Start turning stuff off and turn back into a world that shuts down at nite instead of a 24 hour super charged place

 

[tadoflamb]

This part was conveniently highlighted for me.

“The ‘distraction’ or delay in implementing global agreements on the environment shows that politics has become submissive to a technology and economy which seek profit above all else,” Francis said, according to a Reuters report.

One only need look at Standing Rock to see a microcosm of what the Holy Father is talking about. Here we have corporate interests and profits being held above all all else. The right to clean water aside, Standing Rock exposes the costs of our addiction to fossil fuels, to the environment, to Indigenous peoples and indeed every living creature for the benefit of a very few.

The Sacred Scriptures uphold Catholic social doctrine on the environment when it proclaims,

Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been made able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse;

May God bless Pope Francis.

 

[Mountain_Girl406]

Sometimes I think we have Pope Francis to help protect the world from Trump and leaders who share his views.

 

[Fantine]

Thank you all for your sane and principled discourse. I am going to spend more time in this CF haven of goodness and advocacy.