Posted on 12/12/2014 3:40:43 AM PST by An American in Turkiye
VATICAN CITY - Tackling the problem of climate change is a serious ethical and moral responsibility, Pope Francis told negotiators from around the world meeting for a climate summit in Lima, Peru.
"The time to find global solutions is running out. We can find adequate solutions only if we act together and unanimously," he said in a written message to Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Peru's minister of the environment and host president of the 20th UN Climate Change Conference.
Thousands of negotiators from 195 countries gathered for the meeting in Lima Dec. 1-12 to hammer out details of a new international agreement to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming.
The Vatican released a copy of the Pope's message Dec. 11.
The Pope encouraged the leaders in their discussions because their decisions will "affect all of humanity, especially the poorest and future generations. What's more, it represents a serious ethical and moral responsibility."
The impact climate change already has been having on coastal regions and other areas "reminds us of the seriousness of negligence and inaction," he said. It is morally imperative that people act.
"An effective fight against global warming will be possible only with a collective and responsible answer" that overcomes one-sided or special interests and is "free from political and economic influence," he said.
The Pope said the leaders' response will have to "overcome distrust; promote a culture of solidarity, encounter and dialogue; and be capable of showing responsibility for protecting the planet and the human family."
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Sigh...
And the earth is flat
I say the Catholic Church should donate half of its budget to Climate Change.
This Pope is no John Paul who help Reagan bring down communism.
He is more like a Nutter
Idiots.
Now HERE is a pope with faith in God...
Not.
The Pope said the leaders’ response will have to “overcome distrust; promote a culture of solidarity, encounter and dialogue; and be capable of showing responsibility for protecting the planet and the human family.”
Well THAT will never happen, so PRAY and if God says Yes or God says No, then that’s answer about so-called man-made global warming. The pope here is speaking as the man-pope, not as the Church infallibly.
Oh no, they got to him as well. How much did they donate to the church?
What would be his Biblical basis for this? Upon what incontrovertible scientific facts is he basing this on?
He’s absolutely right. Once the myth of global warming totally collapses, and that’s very soon, there will be nothing left to do about it. When it’s gone, it’s gone.
Pope Francis may be bright and well meaning in many things but I believe socialism my have gotten the best of him and clouded his mind. My the Good Lord be with him and protect his mind from further deterioration.
And they always give this “Time is running out” garbage. Time is running out for what exactly? Give me one single solitary example of any place on earth where the weather is abnormal, for example show me parts of the Arctic where it’s 90 degrees or part of the Amazon where it’s 50 below zero. The fact is there is no place on earth where the weather or “climate” is abnormal to the point where it hasn’t happened before. If it averages 40 degrees in the daytime here in New York, chances are it pretty much averaged 40 degrees for the past 500 years for this time of year. I can’t exactly remember last time it hit 90 for Christmas. And then this crap where they say “One degree of change will kill off countless species” Get the F out of here. Show me one single solitary form of life on this planet that has the inability to withstand one single degree of change in temperature unless it’s some freakazoid bacteria. Any form of life that would be unable to withstand one degree of change would have gone extinct long ago much less even existed in the first place.
Sigh AND Eye Roll.
So now we find he’s also an enviro-whacko. Let me guess.. Al Gore is about to be named the next cardinal.
Ah well.. not my church.
Going by his actions and statements since getting the job, I don’t think he and God have been on speaking terms for a while now. Just when you think he can’t go any more left wing/communist, he does.
I said it before. I fully expect him to announce soon that the whole Bible ‘thing’ is just a series of stories that we need to interpret for our times. Social/communism cannot take over until Christianity as an organized faith is dealt a collectively mortal blow.
It's a shame. It seems that he is conflating faith with ignorance for the world, rather than wisdom. The more he shoots from the hip, the less I can take him seriously.
Time is running out. The whole business is getting cold.
Romans 1:25 They changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
He has made me uneasy from the beginning with his oddities and pretensions (yes, pretensions--this is not a humble man, at all). He'd say the most peculiar things, and then I'd be told that the Vatican cannot afford good translators. He didn't really say that.
Then he keeps wanting to find some way to address homosexuality, always looking for a new window or door. (In the time of Noah…etc…)
Why is that the subject? Sorry, he makes me more uneasy every time I read a new account.
This Pope seems to like attention. He is clearly a man of the left. Meh...as another poster said: Not my church.
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