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Pope Francis stirring call to renew the face of the earth
2015-06-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: In Pope Francis church there are no comfortable pews. Rolled-up sleeves and shoulders to the wheel are the order of the day. After demanding that his Catholic Church strip itself of vanity, arrogance and pride and humbly serve the poorest, he has now challenged his 1.2 billion faithful especially those in Canada and other rich countries to take decisive action, here and now to arrest climate change before it overwhelms the planet. Never before has a pope issued such a sweeping call for...
Will Pope Francis Climate Encyclical Change the World?
2015-06-20 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Pope Francis has drawn the world's attention with a new encyclical that urges action on climate change. But will it have an impact? The papal letter, titled "Laudato si," or "On Care for Our Common Home," paints a bleak picture of Earth as sick and poisoned at almost every level. "The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth," Pope Francis wrote in the document, which is typically sent to bishops of all Roman Catholic churches. [6 Unexpected Effects...
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Will Pope Francis alter public attitudes on global warming?
2015-06-20 04:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star Telegram: Now that another of the worlds most consequential leaders has sounded the alarm over what he says is human-caused global warming, we can ask if his words will significantly alter public concerns over the controversial topic. Pope Francis declared his belief in scientific findings that the greater part of global warming in the last decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases emitted above all due to human activity. Climate change activists are cheering his decree while skeptics...
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Pope Francis is a bit like Naomi Klein in a cassock
2015-06-19 16:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This is my summary: human beings are basically big babies, driven by their desires me, me, me; want, want, want. The job of a capitalist economy is to meet these desires without questioning them. Capitalism does not, for instance, make any moral distinction between what people want and what people actually need between, say, PlayStations and penicillin. As far as capitalism is concerned, they all count as the same thing choice. And capitalism is designed to maximise our choices through a rational...
Championing environment, Francis takes aim global capitalism
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The encyclical on the environment that Pope Francis released on Thursday is as much an indictment of the global economic order as it is an argument for the world to confront climate change. It offers blistering criticism of 21st-century capitalism, expressing skepticism about market forces, criticizing consumerism and cautioning about the costs of growth. But where Francis environmental and economic agendas meet, he leaves something of a paradox, and ammunition potentially for both sides in the...
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