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Pope: Earth has turned into an "immense pile of filth"
2015-06-19 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: In a sweeping environmental manifesto aimed at spurring concrete action, Pope Francis called Thursday for a bold cultural revolution to correct what he described as a "structurally perverse" economic system where the rich exploit the poor, turning Earth into an "immense pile of filth." Francis framed climate change as an urgent moral issue to address in his eagerly anticipated encyclical, blaming global warming on an unfair, fossil fuel-based industrial model that harms the poor most. Citing...
Pope attacks emissions trading as a possible 'ploy'
2015-06-19 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Pope Francis attacked one of the major policy initiatives in the fight to combat climate change, warning in his encyclical published on Thursday that the trading carbon credits could merely reward speculators instead of controlling global greenhouse gas emissions. The pope, the first from the developing world, cautioned that carbon trading systems could be a smokescreen to allow large carbon emitters in wealthy countries to keep doing so, suggesting it might be "a ploy which permits maintaining...
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Pope Francis' climate message yields little GOP response
2015-06-19 09:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Pope Francis' call for dramatic action on climate change drew a round of shrugs from congressional Republicans, while a number of the party's presidential candidates ignored it entirely. "I don't want to be disrespectful, but I don't consider him an expert on environmental issues," said Texas Rep. Joe Barton, a senior Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee, in a comment echoed by others in his party. Even Capitol Hill's Catholic Republicans, despite their religion's reverence for the...
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Pope Francis calls for new system of global government to tackle climate change
2015-06-19 04:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The Pope has been hailed for making a profoundly important intervention to the debate on global warming after making clear that climate change is real, dangerous and manmade as he called for a new system of global government to tackle this unprecedented worldwide threat. In his eagerly awaited encyclical, Pope Francis made a frank plea to world leaders to ignore the short-term outlook that has always dominated politics and look to the long-term instead. It is essential to root out widespread corruption...
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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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