{"id":9213,"date":"2015-06-19T05:32:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T10:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9213"},"modified":"2015-06-19T05:32:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T10:32:53","slug":"pope-francis-encyclical-is-a-sincere-call-for-climate-action-economic-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9213","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis\u2019 Encyclical Is A Sincere Call For Climate Action, Economic Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pope Francis\u2019 Encyclical Is A Sincere Call For Climate Action, Economic Justice<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Pope Francis has released his long awaited encyclical, or teaching document, on climate justice and the environment, and it flies in the face of everything\u00a0climate deniers<\/a>\u00a0stand for.<\/p>\n

The encyclical is officially called\u00a0\u201cLaudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care of Our Common Home,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and it makes a compelling case for humanity\u2019s moral responsibility to \u201cprotect our common home\u201d by tackling the root causes of two of the greatest interlinked global crises of our time: climate change and\u00a0poverty.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>[T]he earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor,\u201d Pope Francis writes. Echoing his earlier\u00a0critique of capitalism and inequality<\/a>, the Pope links the pollution and waste degrading our environment directly to our \u201cthrowaway culture\u201d that, unlike nature, does not seek to reuse and recycle every resource as a valuable constituent of the circle of life.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not yet managed to adopt a circular model of production capable of preserving resources for present and future generations,\u201d the Pope writes. He faults this mode of consumption for creating global warming, and concludes: \u201cHumanity is called to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pope unequivocally embraces the science showing mankind is responsible for global\u00a0warming:<\/p>\n

\u201cA number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human\u00a0activity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He specifically calls for policies to change the way we power human\u00a0society:<\/p>\n

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Pope Francis\u2019 Encyclical Is A Sincere Call For Climate Action, Economic Justice Pope Francis has released his long awaited encyclical, or teaching document, on climate justice and the environment, and it flies in the face of everything\u00a0climate deniers\u00a0stand for. The encyclical is officially called\u00a0\u201cLaudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care of Our Common Home,\u201d\u00a0and it […]<\/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":[2113,141,1218,6479,6475,263,328,6476,369,6477,6480,588,6478,6474,6471,642,674],"class_list":["post-9213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-clean-energy","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-justice","tag-coa","tag-encyclical","tag-energy","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-global-poverty","tag-global-warming","tag-laudato-si-be-praised","tag-lgas","tag-oil","tag-on-the-care-of-our-common-home","tag-pope","tag-pope-francis","tag-poverty","tag-renewable-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213","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=9213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9214,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions\/9214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}