The Errant Environmental Encyclical

TownHall ^ | Jul 25, 2015 | By Paul Driessen

[Brad from Tennessee]

The Laudato Si encyclical on climate, sustainability and the environment prepared by and for Pope Francis is often eloquent, always passionate but often encumbered by platitudes, many of them erroneous.

“Man has slapped nature in the face,” and “nature never forgives,” the pontiff declares. “Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as in the last 200 years.” It isn’t possible to sustain the present level of consumption in developed countries and wealthier sectors of society. “Each year thousands of species are being lost,” and “if we destroy creation, it will destroy us.”

The pope believes climate change is largely manmade and driven by a capitalist economic system that exploits the poor. Therefore, he says, we must radically reform the global economy, promote sustainable development and wealth redistribution, and ensure “intergenerational solidarity” with the poor, who must be given their “sacred rights” to labor, lodging and land (the Three L’s).

All of this suggests that, for the most part, Pope Francis probably welcomes statements by his new friends in the United Nations and its climate and sustainability alliance.

One top Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change official bluntly says climate policy is no longer about environmental protection; instead, the next climate summit will negotiate “the distribution of the world’s resources.” UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres goes even further. UN bureaucrats, she says, are undertaking “probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the global economic development model.”

[Brad from Tennessee]

FROM ARTICLE:

[Obama science advisor John Holdren and Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich, in their Human Ecology book: “We need to de-develop the UnitedStates” and other developed countries, “to bring our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation.” We will then address the “ecologically feasible development of the underdeveloped countries.”]

Holdren and the Pope’s plan is Obama’s plan.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Nature has to be Satan then? Not a representation of God’s provision... and God does forgive, even though not excusing?

Wow, I would not have thought any serious Christian would miss the irony there. Ohhhh, has Francis drunk the Kool-Aid.

[shankbear]

This guy is nothing but a liberal, redistributionist. This liberation theology is embarassing.

[abclily]

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

[Parmy]

This guy is nothing but a liberal, redistributionist. This liberation theology is embarrassing.

I agree whole heartedly. But, a thought struck me as I was walking our crippled cat for his afternoon exercise.

With Christians and Yazidis being persecuted throughout the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, why is the Pope and Catholic hierarchy ignoring their plight?

The only answer that I could think of is 'money'. Those Christians and Yazidis don't have any. The climate marxists have lots. Ergo, I believe that I finally have answered my own question.

Needless to say this pope is no Pope Urban.

[spintreebob]

Didn’t Malthus say all this a couple hundred years ago? Maybe Malthus was just ahead of his time, much as Jonathan Swift was ahead of his time in his prescient understanding of the usefulness of social justice contained babies.