Posted on 04/09/2020 7:07:15 AM PDT by Enlightened1
ROME — Pope Francis said he believes the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is “certainly nature’s response” to humanity’s failure to address the “partial catastrophes” wrought by human-induced climate change.
Asked by British journalist Austen Ivereigh whether the COVID-19 crisis is an opportunity for an “ecological conversion,” the pontiff reasserted his belief that humanity has provoked nature by not responding adequately to the climate crisis.
“There is an expression in Spanish: ‘God always forgives, we forgive sometimes, but nature never forgives,’” Francis said in the interview published Wednesday. “We did not respond to the partial catastrophes. Who now speaks of the fires in Australia, or remembers that a year and a half ago a boat could cross the North Pole because the glaciers had all melted? Who speaks now of the floods?”
“I don’t know if it is nature’s revenge, but it is certainly nature’s response,” he added.
“Every crisis contains both danger and opportunity: the opportunity to move out from the danger,” he said. “Today I believe we have to slow down our rate of production and consumption and to learn to understand and contemplate the natural world.”
Late last month the pope expressed this same belief to a Spanish journalist, insisting that the coronavirus pandemic is nature’s cry for humans to take better care of creation.
Asked whether the COVID-19 pandemic is nature’s way of taking “revenge” on humanity, the pontiff suggested that nature is calling for attention.
“Fires, earthquakes … nature is throwing a tantrum so that we will take care of her,” he said.
Last December as well, the pope said that natural disasters such as a massive storm that struck northern Italy in the fall of 2018 are nature’s way of sounding an alarm to make us more environmentally engaged.
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Worst. Pope. Ever.
What is it with this guy?
Pope Francis is a dumb-ass.
What a f****** idiot!
Our only hope is to pray to Pachamama.
that’s just too kooky
Pope Greta Speaks.
The Pope’s an idiot and a fear mongering jerk. He needs to focus on ridding his clergy of pedophiles rather than spew propaganda.
Of course he does.
Worst.Pope.Ever.
If you do not worship Gaia, then Gaia strikes back at you.
He’s not a Christian.
My wife just nailed him... He is a Pagan!
DUMBEST.......
POPE.........
EVER.......
The Pope is a false teacher to be ignored.
God told him so it must be true.
Should be renamed Pope Pagan.
“Mother Nature” as a sentient powerful force.
Huh. What happened to God, and His promises?
Not even close. Really really not even close. Maybe post 1940's? Certainly not in a historical sense of who's occupied St. Peter's Throne.
But it really is frustrating to see him abandon the tiller of the church.
Stick to Catholic Doctrine Francis
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