Posted on 07/06/2018 2:21:50 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Pope Francis urged governments on Friday to make good on their commitments to curb global warming, warning that climate change, continued unsustainable development and rampant consumption threatens to turn the Earth into a vast pile of “rubble, deserts and refuse.”
Francis made the appeal at a Vatican conference marking the third anniversary of his landmark environmental encyclical “Praise Be.” The document, meant to spur action at the 2015 Paris climate conference, called for a paradigm shift in humanity’s relationship with Mother Nature.
n his remarks, Francis urged governments to honor their Paris commitments and said institutions like the IMF and World Bank had important roles to play in encouraging reforms promoting sustainable development.
“There is a real danger that we will leave future generations only rubble, deserts and refuse,” he warned.
The Paris accord, reached by 195 countries, seeks to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change by curbing global greenhouse gas emissions via individual, nonbinding national plans. U.S. President Donald Trump has said the U.S. will pull out of the accord negotiated by his predecessor unless he can get a better deal.
Friday’s conference was the latest in a series of Vatican initiatives meant to impress a sense of urgency about global warming and the threat it poses in particular to the world’s poorest and most marginalized people.
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The Pope of the warmist cult.
AMEN!
our Caviar leftist Pope moralizing us on expenditures
Remind me again which church pushes for unlimited babies...in every country ???
Global Pope Poop!
Well, have you taken a look at the souls that remain on the planet ? Gonna take some real work to save these ones.
At the end of a one liner Carson asked, “is the Pope Catholic. “
Every one laughed.
Now I’m not sure.
Help save the earth, Francis; rapture yourself
It looks like it started in San Francisco, but not from glow-bull warming.
To coin a phrase from the Three Stooges, “ What a maroon.”
He must’ve visited our Democrat run cities.
Looks like he was referring to the work he’s doing at the Vatican.
But he is partially correct! Only it isn’t global warming, it’s Socialism/Communism.
Look at what he is predicting and look at where it actually exists today. There is one common thread.
Which is typical of diehard lefties.
But that is not for Catholics to say. The premise behind the pope is that one cannot even discover the contents of Scripture without faith in the Catholic church, and likewise 'the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors," "to suffer themselves to be guided and led in all things that touch upon faith or morals by the Holy Church of God through its Supreme Pastor the Roman Pontiff," "of submitting with docility to their judgment," with "no discussions regarding what he orders or demands, or up to what point obedience must go, and in what things he is to be obeyed... not only in person, but with letters and other public documents ;" and 'not limit the field in which he might and must exercise his authority, " for "obedience must not limit itself to matters which touch the faith: its sphere is much more vast: it extends to all matters which the episcopal power embraces," and not set up "some kind of opposition between one Pontiff and another. Those who, faced with two differing directives, reject the present one to hold to the past, are not giving proof of obedience to the authority which has the right and duty to guide them," "Nor must it be thought that what is expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent." (Sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3578348/posts?page=14#14)
However, the Catholic church is not the one true church, as Catholic distinctives are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (including how they understood the OT and gospels), primarily Acts thru Revelation.
I thought Earth was going to become Arrakis, a.k.a. Dune. But I kind of feel like we should use more desalination.
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