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Pope Francis: Protect the Climate as a Common Good
2015-06-19 03:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all, declares Pope Francis in his first major teaching on the environment, an encyclical letter released today. Pope Francis urges all human beings to change their behavior to protect the good resources we all hold in common the climate, the oceans, biodiversity the planet, our common home. Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years. Yet we are called to be instruments of God...
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Pope Francis Uses Encyclical Deliver Moral Message On Climate Change
2015-06-18 23:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: The words from Pope Francis today are urgent and direct. He released his much-anticipated encyclical on the environment and climate change. Francis says our common home is sick, burdened and laid waste, and he's calling for an active response to a global crisis. The pope is directing this encyclical not just to Catholics, but as he puts it, to every person living on this planet. To talk more about Pope Francis's message, we called on John Carr. He directs Georgetown University's...
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Pope Francis Calls For Urgent Action On Climate Change In Encyclical
2015-06-18 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Pope Francis has delivered a scathing indictment of the global economy. In his long-awaited encyclical on the environment, officially released today, he blames consumerism for the degradation of the planet. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli says the document is both a call for immediate action to stop global warming and a cry for justice for the poor. SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE: Taking his cue from his namesake, Saint Francis, the pope refers poetically to the planet as, our sister, Mother...
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Obama praises Pope Francis for making case on climate change
2015-06-18 22:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama praised Pope Francis for issuing a papal document on Thursday calling for action on climate change and said he looked forward to discussing the issue when the two meet at the White House in September. In the document, known as an encyclical, Pope Francis called for a change in lifestyle in rich countries to save the planet from environmental ruin and gave his firm backing to scientists who say global warming is thanks largely to human activity. "I welcome His Holiness Pope...
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Pope Francis Calls for Urgent Action to Fight Climate Change
2015-06-18 20:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: In a highly anticipated papal letter released Thursday, Pope Francis called on Catholics worldwide to make safeguarding the environment and battling climate change an urgent and top priority of the 21st century. In the lengthy treatise, more broadly addressed to "every person" who lives on Earth, the pope lays out a moral case for supporting sustainable economic and population growth as part of the church`s mission and humanity`s responsibility to protect God`s creation for future generations....
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