Posted on 05/22/2024 8:37:35 AM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Francis has stated that the world is at “a point of no return” regarding climate change and is now on “a road to death.”
“Unfortunately, we have gotten to a point of no return,” Pope Francis told CBS’ Norah O’Donnell when asked for his concerns about “climate change.”
“It’s sad, but that’s what it is,” Francis said during an interview aired in full May 20. “Global warming is a serious problem. Climate change at this moment is a road to death. A road to death, eh?”
Continuing, he attested that the changing climate is “an artificial climate change, no? Something provoked, not the normal climate change, right?”
Francis has often invoked the term “ecological debt,” taking aim at wealthy or Western nations for disproportionately impacting “climate change.” This was noted by O’Donnell querying why Francis “placed blame on wealthy countries.”
“In great measure, yes, because they are the ones that have more of an economy and an energy based on fossil fuels that are creating this situation, right,” Francis said.
While not naming any counties in particular, he generalized, saying that wealthy countries are those “that can make the most difference, given their industry.”
But it is very difficult to create an awareness of this. They hold a conference, everybody is in agreement, they all sign, and then bye-bye. But we have to be very clear, global warming is alarming.
A short clip of the interview conducted in April was released at the time, in which Francis criticized climate change skeptics as being “foolish.”
READ: Pope Francis: ‘Deniers of climate change’ are ‘foolish’
“There are people who are foolish, and foolish even if you show them research, they don’t believe it,” Francis responded when asked about “deniers of climate change.”
“Why? Because they don’t understand the situation or because of their interest, but climate change exists,” he critiqued.
The Argentine pontiff has made the topic of climate change or environmentalism one of the central ones of this 11-year pontificate, issuing two key texts in doing so: Laudato Si’ in 2015 and Laudate Deum in 2023.
In Laudate Deum, he issued stark calls for “obligatory” measures across the globe to address the issue of “climate change.”
READ: Pope Francis calls for obligatory global ‘climate change’ policies in new document ‘Laudate Deum’
“It is no longer possible to doubt the human – ‘anthropic’ – origin of climate change,” the Pontiff wrote before later calling for mandatory alignment with “green” policies:
If there is sincere interest in making COP28 a historic event that honors and ennobles us as human beings, then one can only hope for binding forms of energy transition that meet three conditions: that they be efficient, obligatory and readily monitored.
Despite denigrating such high-level meetings during his CBS interview, Francis had been due to attend the COP28 climate conference in Dubai last November in what would have been the culmination of his climate activism. However, due to ill health, he had to cancel the trip less than two days before he had intended to leave.
After many years of climate alarmism rhetoric from the Pontiff, in 2022 the Vatican officially joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the pro-abortion Paris Climate Agreement.
His actions have disregarded long-standing and repeated concerns from pro-life and family advocates, who continually warned about the climate activism movement’s alignment with pro-abortion and population control advocates and lobby groups.
The Pope defended the controversial move of joining the Paris Agreement, saying that “she (‘Mother Earth’) weeps and implores us to put an end to our abuses and to her destruction.”
READ: Arctic sea ice just reached its highest level in 21 years, and it’s going largely unnoticed
Yet, Francis has previously been corrected by scientists who say the “Pope is getting terrible advice from some exalted churchmen who are seriously deficient in scientific knowledge.” While echoing Francis’ concerns that nature should not be treated with wanton disregard, independent climate researchers Tomas Sheahen and Hal Doiron warned that the Vatican was weighing into a debate on which it did not have the necessary expertise.
READ: New documentary exposes climate agenda as ‘scam’ to increase globalist power and profit
“The correct answer is clearly not a settled science on which Pope Francis can confidently rely for the definition of when CO2 emissions become a sin,” Doiron told LifeSiteNews in 2016.
Sheahen suggested that under Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican advisers responsible “made sure that both sides of the climate story were heard.”
“Martino (Cardinal Renato Martino was head of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences under Benedict) understood that there really is a scientific controversy going on, and hence you saw no sweeping Vatican pronouncements in those years. Benedict XVI’s staff understood and respected the proper role of science.
In recent days and since giving his CBS interview, Francis issued a call for a “global financial charter” at the service of reducing “ecological debt,” in passages reminiscent of the passages of Laudate Deum.
READ: Pope Francis calls for ‘global financial charter’ at Vatican climate change conference
“There is a need to develop a new financial architecture capable of responding to the demands of the Global South and of the island states that have been seriously affected by climate catastrophes,” Francis said at a conference run by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
That’s correct.
This Pope doesn’t realize that NO One listens to him
So die already, Frankie
I saw a comment on a friend’s facebook post yesterday from some person who thinks the pope is wonderful. Really inspiring. I think such people are exposed to completely different news than I am.
What church is this guy Pope of?
I once told my practicing Catholic friend that my other friend won’t contact me anymore because I wasn’t recycling plastic bags according to her standards I said “she says we have to save the Earth’
He asked, ‘we have to save the Earth? For what?
The clergy should know that according to the catechism Catholics are to be good stewards of the earth. I do that, BTW.
The pope never had any business telling non Catholics what to do. Still doesn’t
26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one [a]cubit to his [b]stature?
28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not [c]arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Of course, there is value in being good stewards of the planet, and we should take care not to pollute and ruin what we have been given. But added warmth to our planet gives even more life. Why should we be so afraid?
“ The clergy should know that according to the catechism Catholics are to be good stewards of the earth.”
Nothing more.
Francis is wrong. Vatican II and its apostasy of the Church, as depicted in the Third Secret of Fatima is the road to death. That is why Lucy did not want it revealed until 1960.
She felt that the Secret’s impact would stop Vatican II, but she underestimated the power of Satan and his control of the progressives in the Curia.
it’s like saying “gravity be keeping us down.”
Perhaps the Pope can also give us advice on which brand of tires to buy.
Why do puss filled sores like this moron and Soros seem to go on living firever?
Noah and his family survived Climate Change.
Good. Now STFU about it and let US all die in peace.
Encouraging homosexual sodomy on his Catholic flock is the road to death as well, but he is OK with that. /spit
dear popie...blame God. man is incapble of changing the climate.
Climate change is a non-problem and the best response to a non-problem is to do nothing.
He must have no faith in the Lord. This person is a fraud.
Apologies to all faithful Roman Catholics who truly believe in Jesus the Christ as their saviour from this sinful, cursed world...but you gotta’ get rid of your cuurent Pope.
The true church of Christ is not immune from internal corruption, and false teachers, and you got a perfect example here...case in point...he recently stated that mankind is down deep “good”...if something is good but does bad things how is that considered”good”?
Maybe the Pope confused “wanting to do good things” with actually being good. Ooops...
“He must have no faith in the Lord. This person is a fraud.”
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Hey, he’s just a product of his religion.
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