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Pope Francis: The world is near ‘suicide’ on climate change; ‘it’s now or never’
Washington Post ^ | Nov 30, 2015 | Niraj Chokshi

Posted on 11/30/2015 2:46:35 PM PST by bkopto

Environmental negotiators meeting in Paris should strike a climate change deal to save a world "at the limits of suicide," Pope Francis said on Monday.

"I am not sure, but I can say to you 'now or never'," he told a group of reporters aboard the papal plane, en route home from Africa, according to Reuters. "Every year the problems are getting worse. We are at the limits. If I may use a strong word I would say that we are at the limits of suicide."

The comments come at the start of a United Nations-sponsored environmental summit in Paris, which nearly 150 world leaders are expected to attend.

Politicians have generally "done little" to deal with the growing problem, Francis said, according to the National Catholic Reporter.

"I am sure they have the good will to do it. And I wish that it will be so, and I pray for this," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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To: bkopto

he is speaking outside his area of expertise. He might have a degree in chemistry to teach high school, but that does not make him a scientist or an expert in climate science.

And as Pope, his opinion here is not binding on Catholics.

However, with the new film coming out on pedophilia, and with the newest Vatican scandal where the whistleblowers were arrested, he wants to change the subject.

and the “social justice warriors” are kept happy: They can now preach climate science instead of iberation theology. Jesus? Who is he?

end sarcasm.


41 posted on 11/30/2015 3:13:28 PM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: bkopto

Calm down Francis.


42 posted on 11/30/2015 3:14:31 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: stevem

Yeah, get out of that church. From a former catholic.


43 posted on 11/30/2015 3:14:40 PM PST by jbb247
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To: bkopto

De-Frock De-Poop! Looney Tunes all the way!


44 posted on 11/30/2015 3:15:36 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: bkopto

We went from the “earth has a fever” to suicide in 20 years.


45 posted on 11/30/2015 3:17:09 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: bkopto

Catholic’s please fire this guy.


46 posted on 11/30/2015 3:17:24 PM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: faithhopecharity

It really disturbs me, a great deal, when he mashes up/misinterprets scripture and I apparently know more than he does.


47 posted on 11/30/2015 3:19:51 PM PST by nopardons
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To: bkopto
I'm supposed to take this guy seriously?


48 posted on 11/30/2015 3:22:04 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: bkopto

Jesus must be freaking out...What if his pope isn’t successful in persuading the people that they must save God’s creation???


49 posted on 11/30/2015 3:22:16 PM PST by Iscool (Izlam and radical Izlam are different the same way a wolf and a wolf in sheeps clothing are differen)
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To: bkopto

Apparently the Catholics have chosen an idiot for their Pope. It is a shame.


50 posted on 11/30/2015 3:24:45 PM PST by Laserman
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51 posted on 11/30/2015 3:24:49 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: faithhopecharity

Just by being a pope means he has no grasp on theology.

Other than that he’s a nut job communist.


52 posted on 11/30/2015 3:24:50 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: bkopto
Pope Francis: The world is near suicide on climate change..."

He isn't wrong on this part.

53 posted on 11/30/2015 3:25:15 PM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: smartyaz

Who cares about climate change.

That’s an interesting crucifix those two are holding.


54 posted on 11/30/2015 3:30:54 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Bryanw92
>>This guy is as bad as Bath House. -- Worse, because he pretends to be a Man of God.

Cough ... I suppose you are right. The man in the White House pretends to be god.

55 posted on 11/30/2015 3:31:12 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: bkopto

The Catholic Church is too important as a spiritual institution to be in the hands of this man.

How did we come to this?


56 posted on 11/30/2015 3:32:32 PM PST by Senator_Blutarski
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To: bkopto

Not sure who His Holiness is listening to on this issue, but, fairly certain it’s not God.


57 posted on 11/30/2015 3:32:55 PM PST by John W (Less Than Two Years of ISIS Best Friend Left)
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To: bkopto

I was raised Catholic, and as far as I am concerned, this crazy old man in a dress who flies around the world in a chartered Alitalia airliner, lecturing us about a problem that doesn’t even exist, should shut his pie hole.

Go back to Argentina, and take your globull warming cult with you, Francis.


58 posted on 11/30/2015 3:35:26 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Just say NO to muslim "immigrants")
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59 posted on 11/30/2015 3:36:10 PM PST by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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To: jdege

As hopeful as that might be, it is incorrect. If they don't get it through now, they will be back -- with a slightly different version under a different name. They never give up.

In the 1970s and 80s, it was global cooling that was going to do us in by the end of the century. By the 90s and 2000s, it was global warming. When they realized how ridiculous their arguments sounded, they changed in the last decade or so to climate change.

The problem is that climate has been changing every year since the Earth started spinning around the Sun.


60 posted on 11/30/2015 3:36:44 PM PST by TomGuy
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