Pope Francis made his strongest statements yet about climate change Wednesday, rebuking fossil fuel companies and urging countries to make an immediate transition to renewable energy.
In a new document titled “Laudate Deum,” or “Praise God,” the pope criticizes oil and gas companies for greenwashing new fossil fuel projects and calls for more ambitious efforts in the West to tackle the climate crisis. In the landmark apostolic exhortation, a form of papal writing, Francis says that “avoiding an increase of a tenth of a degree in the global temperature would already suffice to alleviate some suffering for many people.”
“Laudate Deum” is a follow-up to the pope’s 2015 encyclical on climate change, known as “Laudato Si’,” which lamented the exploitation of the planet and cast the protection of the environment as a moral imperative. When it was released, “Laudato Si’” was viewed as an extraordinary move by the head of the Catholic Church to address global warming and its consequences.
Nearly a decade later, the pope’s message has taken on new urgency.
Thank you captain obvious. Now you need to focus on some of your own internal issues.
I call out Pope Francis for not doing enough to stop child abuse.
Why do the press even care what the pope says.
Because millions and millions of people care?
A lot of people live by what the pope says lol. Media obv just wants clicks and would give platform to anyone that does not hurt their interests.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Pope Francis made his strongest statements yet about climate change Wednesday, rebuking fossil fuel companies and urging countries to make an immediate transition to renewable energy.
In a new document titled “Laudate Deum,” or “Praise God,” the pope criticizes oil and gas companies for greenwashing new fossil fuel projects and calls for more ambitious efforts in the West to tackle the climate crisis.
In the landmark apostolic exhortation, a form of papal writing, Francis says that “avoiding an increase of a tenth of a degree in the global temperature would already suffice to alleviate some suffering for many people.”
“Laudate Deum” is a follow-up to the pope’s 2015 encyclical on climate change, known as “Laudato Si’,” which lamented the exploitation of the planet and cast the protection of the environment as a moral imperative.
Francis’ “Laudate Deum” similarly highlights the outsize influence of the fossil fuel industry in the UAE, writing that “gas and oil companies are planning new projects there, with the aim of further increasing their production.”
The pope says he hopes COP28 proceedings produce “binding forms of energy transition that meet three conditions: that they be efficient, obligatory and readily monitored.”
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At least he admitted it.
That’ll tell those oil companies to stop making record profits!
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Fucking hell. All the simple minded people in these comments who have no sense of nuance or incremental benefits… nothing will ever be perfect enough for them and they will be just as helpful for fixing the messes of our society as the ones who deny it at this rate.
Yeah it’s a little and yeah it’s late but it’s something and he can be right about this and problematic elsewhere. Not everything can be solved with the mindset of an 8 year old who thinks people are either good or evil
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This bitch needs to stfu and concentrate all on the pedophiles he’s protecting. Disgusting piece of shit!
We the people calling these bastards out for their crimes against innocent children and teens. We should all band together and ram their arseholes.
FUCK THE POPE and FUCK those that stand in the way of climate change work.
Both of those are entities that have regularly and consistently stood in the way of progress to enrich themselves in wealth and power. Disgusting.
This is part of the reason why I say that people who claim that church is anti-science, have never actually sat down and listened to the Pope.
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The Church was definitely anti-science when it threatened to undermine their authority, i.e., when it contradicted some article of faith. This started in the Renaissance and continued up until very recently. The Catholic Church was still fighting against evolutionary theory in the 1980s!
So, if they only believe in science when it doesn’t contradict their superstition, and criticize and persecute scientists when it does… does that make them pro-science?
Things that make you go, “Hmmm…”
While it’s important to note all the harm that has been done by bad actors in its ranks, the Roman Catholic Church has been a huge supporter of science for a long time now.
The anti-intellectualism movements in many churches right now are a fairly recent trend. Many of the world’s most-prestigous institutions of education and science were founded as religious institutions.
Understanding the natural world was long seen as examining the majesty of creation. The more people learned about the universe the grander its scale.
But of course there have also been times in history where the powerful worked tirelessly to deny people education and opportunity as they hoarded wealth for themselves, and they coopted churches to convince the people that knowledge was evil and that suffering was a sign of Godliness.
It’s also important to note that even the Roman Catholic Church is not a monolith. There are certainly those in its hierarchy who are as bad as you might expect, and others who are far more progressive than you’d guess. And when most people (at least and especially in America) say christian, they mostly mean protestant, which is even far less monolithic than the Catholics since it’s a bunch of similar churches with their own or sometimes no hierarchical structures.
Francis is just running damage control for the absolute fascist that last pope was.
Good. We need damage control after fascists cause damage that’s the point.
You dropped this:
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Way too little, way too late.
“POPE CALLS FOR NATIONS TO IMPOSE 1000% TAX ON CARBON, ACCELERATE TRANSITION TO RENEWABLES”, said no pope ever, to anyone.
If only the church had billions of dollars to fight the evils of the world like hunger, homelessness, and pedos just to name a few.
it’s a case that even a broken clock ticks the right time now and then
Or you had the power to publicly shame Catholic leaders and say “you can’t get into heaven until you stop sucking so bad”
