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Dalai Lama Endorses Pope Franciss Encyclical on Climate Change
2015-06-29 16:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Dalai Lama endorsed the Pope`s encyclical on climate change yesterday while speaking at Glastonbury festival, a massive five-day festival that takes place in Somerset, England. The Buddhist leader spoke at a panel on climate change, praising the encyclical and saying it was the duty of everyone to "say more. We have to make more of an effort, including demonstrations. Watch the @DalaiLama talk #climate action with @350 & @guardian at Glastonbury Festival http://t.co/6CMVnKbrJz -- 350 dot...
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Popes Encyclical Scientifically and Morally Valid Call for Radical Change
2015-06-24 15:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Earth has existed for 4.5 billion years, humans for somewhere around 150,000. But in my brief lifetime--less than 80 years--human populations have exploded exponentially, from two billion to more than seven billion. In that short time, weve created consumer societies and decimated the planets natural systems, used up resources, filled oceans with plastic and pollution, altered water cycles and upset the Earths carbon cycle, disrupting global climate systems. Our impacts on this small blue planet...
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Will Pope Francis' encyclical reshape world's climate debate?
2015-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Toward the beginning of his landmark encyclical, "Laudato Si'," Pope Francis writes, "I urgently appeal, then, for a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of the planet." Yesterday, a dialogue was what he got. Reactions poured in from around the world to Francis' call for humanity to step away from a consumption-driven society that, in his mind, has caused the Earth "to look more and more like an immense pile of filth." President Obama issued a statement saying he "deeply admire[d] the...
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How Pope Franciss Climate Encyclical Is Disrupting American Politics
2015-06-22 15:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Republican reaction to Pope Franciss climate encyclical, juxtaposed to the Democratic congressional rebellion against President Obama on trade, suggest that climate and energy are powerfully disrupting the grid-locked orthodoxy which has dominated American politics for the last decade. The Tea Party-Koch brothers wing of conservatism, (and the corporate wing of the Democratic Party), are clearly on the defensive. The most significant tell is the flailing responses of reactionaries to the...
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Beyond climate hidden gem in Popes encyclical on making social media matter
2015-06-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The main conversation around Pope Franciss remarkable encyclical letter is appropriately on the core messages that human-driven climate change is dangerous; access to energy matters; that consumptive capitalism is a problem, not a solution. But there are other rich veins to tap, including a vital section on big challenges posed by the online and electronic media environment a world with too much information, more insularity than outreach, a fog of facts immersed in spin and fiction, a bias...
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