A Fight Of ‘Epochal Proportions’ – Pope On Climate

Pope warns climate change turning Earth into desert, garbage

Nicole Winfield, July 6, 2018 (AP via Chicago Tribune)

“…[Governments must meet] their commitments to curb global warming…[because there is a ‘real danger’ that climate change, continued unsustainable development, and rampant consumption threaten] to turn the Earth into a vast pile of ‘rubble, deserts and refuse’ [Pope Francis said] at the most recent] Vatican conference…[Francis] said institutions like the IMF and World Bank had important roles to play in encouraging reforms promoting sustainable development…[The current White House pulled out of the Paris accord, through which 195 countries would avoid some of the worst effects of climate change by curbing global greenhouse gas emissions via individual, nonbinding national plans…[A series of Vatican initiatives have stressed an] urgency about global warming and the threat it poses…Recently, Francis invited oil executives and investors to the Vatican for a closed-door conference where he urged them to find alternatives to fossil fuels…[and] warned that climate change was a challenge of ‘epochal proportions’..[A 1919 meeting of bishops will] address the church's response to the ecological crisis in the Amazon, where deforestation threatens what he has called the ‘lung’ of the planet…” click here for more

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