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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...
Republican presidential hopefuls on hot seat, thanks Pope Francis
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: For more than half a century, Catholic politicians in the United States have regularly been put in awkward positions on the question of how closely they would -- or should -- follow the dictates of the Vatican. Until recently, Democrats usually were the ones to feel the most heat. But now it is the turn of Republicans, thanks to Pope Francis, the charismatic and activist pontiff who is set to visit the United States in September. The popes 192-page call to action Thursday, which blames the...
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Pope Francis warns climate change human causes & 'grave implications' landmark encyclical
2015-06-19 16:00:00| 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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Will Pope Franciss climate message break through where others have failed?
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: The leader of the world's largest Christian faith might succeed in doing something that many experts have failed to achieve: communicating the urgency of global warming. Thats one reaction Pope Franciss encyclical on climate change and the environment, Laudato Si ("Praised Be"), released today. It includes a call for "a new dialogue" on the planet's future, an accessible summary of climate science, a stinging critique of international talks that have produced ineffectual environmental agreements,...
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Excerpts from Pope Francis encyclical on the environment
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Pope Francis on Thursday issued a major encyclical on the environment, called "Laudato Si (Praise Be), On the Care of Our Common Home". Here are some key excerpts from the official English version: ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS CAUSES "In recent decades this warming has been accompanied by a constant rise in the sea level and, it would appear, by an increase of extreme weather events, even if a scientifically determinable cause cannot be assigned to each particular phenomenon. Humanity is called...
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