Posted on 05/20/2021 7:16:36 PM PDT by marshmallow
"We have to act now"
Catholic support for a price on carbon dioxide emissions was on display during a weekend climate change conference, where two bishops, an environmental leader and former Vatican ambassador touted it as a critical climate solution that is both effective and “eminently doable.”
Bishops John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, and Robert McElroy of San Diego both backed the idea of a carbon tax on coal, oil and gas companies, which would be redistributed to Americans in the form of a dividend.
McElroy said it is the responsibility of people of faith to “raise the alarm” about climate change and demand real solutions from public officials.
“The carbon tax is a central element of that, because it’s a way of ensuring, in an economically sound manner, that the carbon we put into the atmosphere is reduced in the years to come,” he said.
Just as important, he added, “it’s eminently doable….”
The comments came during an online conference May 15 held by Citizens Climate Lobby, a nonpartisan climate solutions advocacy organization that for years has pushed for Congress to put a price on carbon….
McElroy, in his video message, echoed Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” stressing that despite the ecological destruction facing the planet, people still have the ability to act. “It’s not that we can’t do anything to stop this; we can. We just aren’t choosing to do so.”
“There are smart ways to rescue the climate, and to stop climate change and to reverse it. But we have to act now, because the damage is building upon itself with every passing year,” McElroy said.
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I am surprised to learn that Bishop Stowe has any interests outside of gay sex.
It seems that these Bishops have been ensnared in trap of Modernism.
These Bishops have a new god… and it’s not God. They’ve abandoned Him.
No surprise. The Marxist Infiltration of The Church is nearly complete. There are a few priests standing up for Biblical Teachings but, they are too few. Leftists/Marxists have made it a goal of infiltrating and corrupting ALL Traditionally Christian organizations. They are like Termites or Cancer Cells. While the average American was asleep. Just living our lives and raising our children the Left had a plan.
While we were asleep at the wheel they were implementing their plan. To this very day as we are on the precipice of the Destruction of our Republic and the vast majority of Americans are asleep at the wheel. Clueless. Oblivious.
And, a great many who are not have lowered themselves to voting for RINOs. Democrat Lite. Because they come across as more palatable. They are not rough around the edges. They are not brash and confrontational. The RINOs do not make us uncomfortable. They are Luke Warm.
Until it’s time for them to vote. Then we cry out, How Dare They!!! This isn’t what we voted for!!!
Then they run scare campaigns. Vote for ME or a Radical Leftist will take my seat!!! And we buy it. We bite. Hook, Line, and Sinker. And then, they BURN US AGAIN!!!
At least the question of globull warming has momentarily distracted the good Bishop from this week’s crop of hot altar boys...
He also likes bashing Trump.
What a vile and shameful guy STOWE IS.
Why does anyone remain Catholic? It is just another marxist tool
How ‘bout we make the catholic church pay real estate taxes on all their church properties?
They need to have skin in the game.
Marxism is very strong in these Catholic clowns - YODA
and I am sure that we should trust them after they tortured and robbed the Templar Knights for the loot. Bunch of crooks, it’s almost as though Martin Luther never existed.
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