“Climate change is a global problem with grave implications: environmental, social, economic, political and for the distribution of goods, it represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day.”
“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. Frequently no measures are taken until after people’s health has been irreversibly affected.”
“Climate change calls for a sense of responsibility for our fellow men and women upon which all civil society is founded.”
“The developed countries ought to help pay this debt by significantly limiting their consumption of nonrenewable energy and by assisting poorer countries to support policies and programs of sustainable development.”
“Those who possess more resources and economic or political power seem mostly to be concerned with masking the problems or concealing their symptoms,for profit.”
It goes without saying how much Pope Francis is hated by Fox News, talk radio and especially Rush Limbaugh who calls him both a “Marxist” and a “Communist” though Limbaugh has not yet called him a slut.
But it is Catholics like Rick Santorum, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush who are really peaved at the pontiff for going political against their politics of global warmng denial. We must keep in mind that the entire world accepts climate change except the Republican Party in America. Our unique mix of oil and religion, or as some call it, greasy Christianity,