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Pope Francis Laudato Si encyclical expresses moral obligation fight climate change
2015-06-18 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: In a highly anticipated papal letter released June 18, 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 churchs mission and humanitys responsibility to protect Gods creation for future generations. While...
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Pope Francis: Humans Are Turning the Earth Into an Immense Pile of Filth
2015-06-18 17:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This is an excerpt from Pope Francis encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si. The Earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish. Industrial waste and chemical products utilized in cities and agricultural areas can lead to bio-accumulation in the organisms of the local population, even when levels of toxins in those places are low. Frequently no measures...
Pope Francis "Bold Cultural Revolution" Needed Save Planet Climate Change & Consumerism
2015-06-18 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democracy Noew: In his long-awaited encyclical on the environment and climate change, Pope Francis has called for swift action to save the planet from environmental ruin, urging world leaders to hear "the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor." He called for a change of lifestyle in rich countries steeped in a "throwaway" consumer culture, and an end to "obstructionist attitudes" that sometimes put profit before the common good. Pope Francis said protecting the planet is a moral and ethical "imperative" for believers...
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Pope Francis Backs Science, Warns of Climate Risk
2015-06-18 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In a historic document addressed to "every person living on this planet,' Pope Francis warns that climate change and other forms of environmental degradation have reached a crisis point. Francis frames "Laudato Si',' the first papal encyclical devoted solely to ecological issues, as an "urgent appeal ... for a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet.' Encyclicals are among the highest forms of Catholic teaching a pontiff can publish. "A very solid scientific consensus...
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Pope Francis Aligns Himself With Mainstream Science on Climate
2015-06-18 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The new papal encyclical on the environment is a ringing call to action, a critique of consumerism and a prophetic warning about the dangers of ignoring what Pope Francis calls the ecological crisis. But amid all his soaring rhetoric, did the pope get the science right? The short answer from climate and environmental scientists is that he did, at least to the degree possible in a religious document meant for a broad audience. If anything, they say, he may have bent over backward to offer a cautious...
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