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The Pope is urging Christians to save the polluted planet from 'debris, desolation, and filth'
2016-09-01 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Pope Francis called on Thursday for concerted action against environmental degradation and climate change, renewing his fierce attack on consumerism and financial greed, which, he said, were threatening the planet. A year after publishing the first ever papal document dedicated to the environment, the pope returned to the subject calling on Christians to make the defense of nature a core part of their faith. "God gave us a bountiful garden, but we have turned it into a polluted wasteland of...
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Air pollution: a dark cloud of filth poisons the worlds cities
2016-01-16 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: During these cold winter days, Anumita Choudhury dare not leave her small second-floor apartment in Delhis northern suburbs. Elderly now, she has developed asthma. The last time she ventured into the streets of the worlds second most populous city she began gasping for breath and had to be helped home by her neighbours. The story is the same in many of the worlds great cities. From Kabul in Afghanistan to Hong Kong and Shijiazhuang in China, and from Lima to So Paulo in Latin America, people...
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 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...
S. African archbishop Desmond Tutu describes Alberta oilsands as filth
2014-05-31 16:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CP: Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu has called Alberta's oilsands ``filth'' created by greed, and has urged all sides to work together to protect the environment and aboriginal rights. "The fact that this filth is being created now, when the link between carbon emissions and global warming is so obvious, reflects negligence and greed,'' Tutu told more than 200 attendees at a conference on oilsands development and treaty rights in Fort McMurray on Saturday. "The oilsands are emblematic of an era...
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