Posted on 12/17/2020 5:17:48 PM PST by marshmallow
Pope Francis sends a video message to participants in the UN’s virtual climate summit, and highlights the Holy See’s efforts to promote a “culture of care” in order to combat climate change.
“The effects of the ongoing pandemic and climate change—which are relevant not only for the environment but also for the spheres of ethics, society, economics, and politics—weigh most heavily upon the lives of the poor and vulnerable.”
Pope Francis offered that motivation for the Holy See’s commitment to combatting climate change, in a video message sent on Saturday.
His remarks were directed to participants in the UN’s High Level Virtual Climate Ambition Summit, which was held Saturday, 12 December, on the 5th anniversary of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
The event sought to urge national governments to honor their commitments to reduce CO2 emissions and limit global warming.
Vatican City State’s efforts
In his video message, Pope Francis expressed his support for efforts to work toward net-zero emissions, and described the Holy See’s actions in this regard, which take place on two different levels.
Vatican City State, said the Pope, is dedicated to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
The Vatican is also seeking to care for the environment by reducing its water and electricity usage, and by employing tactics to encourage energy efficiency, sustainable transportation, reforestation, and waste recycling.
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How much money does pope satanfelcher get?
The Catholic Church had better change its pope if it wants to survive.
Has the pope ever earned a paycheck by working? Highly doubt it.
Nope
Too late
Only 10 years left
Ping
Would be nice to have a pope dedicated to the catechism rather than this heretical pagan idiot religion.
Ping
I think The Goreacle said ten years in 1996.
An ultra left-wing political group run by a bunch of predatory homosexuals.
About 2 Billion per year from the CCP.
He did work as a bouncer in his earlier years.
I din’t know. Who else knew?
That came out last year. Remember when McCarrick got pulled back into service after having been sidelined by Benedict? He made a deal for the Vatican in which he sold out the Roman Catholics in China and for his effort he got for his boss Frankie - 2 Billion per year.
The randomness of weather seems to escape the understanding of these poindexters, for example, in the northeast U.S., the warmest November on record in some places has been followed by the biggest December snowstorm in ages in some of those same places.
If they want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, then why not go more towards nuclear power instead of relying on inefficient and underproductive wind or solar? Nevada was trying to integrate a massive solar power project (west of Tonopah) into their grid from 2012 to 2018, finally gave up on it because it wasn’t reliable or predictable enough despite an expenditure of over a billion dollars and obviously unlimited sunshine.
How does that help the poor and needy? It only helps the big players who invest in these boondoggles and scoop up massive amounts of public money. Nuclear power could be developed without spending public money at all, at least long-term, because it’s a reliable source and can be integrated at high volumes (Ontario, Canada has used nuclear power as a large component of its grid for decades).
Nuclear power got onto the wrong side of the political left’s quirky set of priorities in the 1970s basically because the Soviet handlers told the useful idiots to oppose it (thinking that gains made in conventional nuclear might spill over into military nuclear).
But nowadays there is no compelling reason for the left to be opposed to nuclear power. If they are as pro-science as they claim, the science of nuclear is well established and mitigation is fairly easy for any problems that do arise. Just situate the nuclear power stations well away from large population centers in case there are brief glitches. The average nuclear power plant incident is something like a two-day minor nuisance event, something like Chernobyl or Windscale (UK 1950s) is rare, and Three Mile Island was never that huge a public health problem. Given that these are the only really significant problems in the nuclear power industry over half a century, it’s not a very risky thing (can’t count Fukushima because that was really an earthquake-tsunami disaster rather than a nuclear power problem).
Yes. The direction away from Marxism.
The ChiComs bought the Vatican as well as the Supreme Court, the Dems, and Gov. Kemp ...
At one time I would defend the church by all accusations. Now,I really cannot deny the above statement. What an irony that the left has again found religion and love the "Catholic" Biden.
The “Nope” has spoken.
Who really cares?
The Pope ought to be preaching the gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ. Oh, I forgot - he doesn’t know about it.
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