Posted on 07/31/2022 6:02:49 PM PDT by marshmallow
A top Vatican cardinal has endorsed calls for a fossil fuels nonproliferation treaty
ROME -- A top Vatican cardinal endorsed calls for a fossil fuels nonproliferation treaty and said Thursday that all new exploration and production of oil must be phased out to prevent global temperatures from rising to a “precipice.”
Cardinal Michael Czerny, the Canadian Jesuit who runs the Vatican’s ecology and development office, made the comments while presenting Pope Francis’ annual message about caring for God’s creation.
In the message, Francis repeated his call for an end to industrial extraction practices used in mining, tapping oil and forestry, saying they are destroying forests, polluting rivers and poisoning food sources.
Czerny went further, throwing his support behind a grassroots initiative for a treaty to phase out fossil fuels, support economies and workers to diversify away from them, and to improve access to renewable energy sources.
He said such a treaty was necessary to accompany the 2015 Paris Accords, which seek to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) this century.
With temperatures already more than 1.1 C higher than the pre-industrial baseline, many experts say that keeping within the target is only possible with drastic cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.
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I think we need a creepy libtard cardinal non proliferation treaty
Dang right!!!!!!!!!
In other news, Galileo is declared anathema for declaring that the earth orbits the sun.
Well then, there will a proliferation of unemployed Catholics with no way to donate.
I always turn to church leaders for lessons on global climate physics and seek their opinions on energy production.
In an Inuit canoe?
Christ, cleanse your Church of the creepy politicians who have set up shop therein.
Go ye into all the world, phasing out all new exploration and production of oil...
The catholic church is dead.
When hundreds of millions of people starve to death, we are going to hang the people who shutdown the Fertilizer plants.
Not very Christian to deny the poor the same standard of living that he enjoys daily.
He and the false pope need to concern themselves with the Bible.
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