Much of what the Pope says here are not Global Warming issues. They are land use issues in the face of a rising global population. Desertification is a land use problem, so too is habitat degradation and destruction. Pollution of rivers is not a climate issue at all and neither is deforestation. These are issues independant of climate and are to do with mankinds’ rapacious use of natural systems and recources.
The increase of natural disasters…? Er, where’s the proof of that, I ask? If you research, hurricane activity along the US coast has lessened over the past few years. Perhaps what his holiness is getting at is the increased loss of life through natural disasters. Well, with more and more people living along geographic fault lines, or near volcanoes, of course a significant loss of life will take place with each natural deisaster.
In terms of global food production, the world’s output has never been higher, so someone, somewhere, must be doing the right thiong.
Now lets turn to Global Warming.
The world has been much hotter in the past and yet life flourished. Google Medievil Warm Period and learn how grapes once grew in Greenland. No doubt once the cold returned the grapegrowers became climate refugees!
Google eath’s temperatures over the millennia and you will see that the Earth has been a very, very hot place millions of years ago and still life flourished. In fact, there is evidence that climate temperatures increasing bring about higher concentrationsn of Carbon, not vice versa as some would have us believe.
If his holiness, in asking for a “new solidarity” means getting into bed with the likes of Robert Mugabe and Hugo Chavez, then sorry, I think he’s on the wrong track.
Read here how Hugo Chavez said there was a “
silent and terrible ghost in the room” and that ghost was called capitalism.
Read here how Zimbabwe dictator and serial human rights abuser Robert Mugabe said "
When these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions, it’s we, the lesser mortals of the developing sphere who gasp and sink and eventually die."
His Holiness needs to distance himself from this charade of “saving the world” and distance himself from the likes of Mugabe and Chavez and everyother two bit carpetbagger involved in this debate.
Perhaps His Holiness should hold up as examples of true Christian spirit
Bill and Melinda Gates who quietly do what they can to solve the problems of the world.