{"id":12656,"date":"2015-09-26T09:52:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T14:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12656"},"modified":"2015-09-26T09:52:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T14:52:19","slug":"popes-climate-push-is-raving-nonsense-without-population-control-says-top-us-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12656","title":{"rendered":"Pope’s climate push is ‘raving nonsense’ without population control, says top US scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pope’s climate push is ‘raving nonsense’ without population control, says top US scientist<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Paul Ehrlich writes in Nature Climate Change that Francis is wrong to fight climate change without also addressing the strain from population growth on resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

One of America\u2019s leading scientists has dismissed as \u201craving nonsense\u201d the pope\u2019s call for action on climate change \u2013 so long as the leader of the world\u2019s 1 billion Catholics rejects the need for population control.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0commentary in the journal Nature Climate Change<\/a>, Paul Ehrlich, a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, argues that Pope Francis is simply wrong in trying to fight climate change without also addressing the additional strain on global resources from population rise. \u201cThat\u2019s raving nonsense,\u201d Ehrlich told the Guardian. \u201cHe is right on some things but he is just dead wrong on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The critique in \u201cSociety and the Pope\u2019s encyclical<\/a>\u201d, part of a special package from scientists on the encyclical, marked a rare note of dissent from scientists and campaigners. Many hope that the pope will drive home his\u00a0call to action on poverty and the environment<\/a>\u00a0in his speech to Congress on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Ehrlich, in his Nature Climate Change commentary, accuses Francis of a dangerous flaw in his indictment of consumerism and its effects on the poor and the environment. The pope had fallen for the usual clerical \u201cobsession\u201d with contraception and abortion \u2013 when he could have instead broken new ground on the Catholic church\u2019s approaches to women\u2019s reproductive rights and family planning.<\/p>\n

The broadside exposes some of the difficulties of embracing a figure such as the pope \u2013 for those on the left as well as the right.<\/p>\n

Conservative allies of the pope, on issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion, have balked at his denunciation of capitalism and call to action on climate change.<\/p>\n

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Pope’s climate push is ‘raving nonsense’ without population control, says top US scientist Paul Ehrlich writes in Nature Climate Change that Francis is wrong to fight climate change without also addressing the strain from population growth on resources One of America\u2019s leading scientists has dismissed as \u201craving nonsense\u201d the pope\u2019s call for action on climate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9296,141,161,9295,5975,6474,1160,6917],"class_list":["post-12656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-catholic-church","tag-climate-change","tag-consumerism","tag-nature-climate-change","tag-paul-ehrlich","tag-pope","tag-population-growth","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12657,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656\/revisions\/12657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}