Fortunately, this encyclical is rapidly turning the Pope into a laughingstock. Even leftists who would otherwise support him are embarrassed by his anti-technology rants, and examination of the whole rambling, incoherent document reveals more and more inconsistencies and illogic by the minute. It also reveals profound ignorance of everything ranging from energy and technology to markets and economics, and shows how completely unqualified he and his mostly Latin American 1970s leftist advisers are for this discussion.
I think this will be the moment at which people realize that the relentless barrage of opinions we are getting from the Pope is just that, a flood of the random opinions of an old man angry that he was never able to put them into practice during his glory days in the 1970s.
It all flows from the findings of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences aka the Vatican Academy of Sciences, which is probably not much different from the US Academy of Sciences.
And most don't recall that a few months ago, deniers such as the Heartland Institute and others unsuccessfully tried to assert their way into the climate summit sponsored by the Vatican Academy