Posted on 06/09/2018 4:05:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Pope Francis told leading oil executives Saturday that the transition to less-polluting energy sources is a challenge of epochal proportions and warned that satisfying the worlds energy needs must not destroy civilization.
The Vatican said Francis held a two-day conference with the executives as a follow-up to his encyclical three years ago that called on people to save the planet from climate change and other environmental ills.
Participants included the CEOs of Italian oil giant ENI, British Petroleum, ExxonMobil and Norways Statoil as well as scientists and managers of major investment funds. Their remarks on the first day of the closed-door conference were not released by the Vatican.
While Francis lauded the oil executives for embedding an assessment of climate change risks into their planning strategies, he also put them on notice for their continued search for fossil fuel reserves, 2½ years after the Paris climate accord clearly urged keeping most fossil fuels underground.
Civilization requires energy, but energy must not destroy civilization, he implored.
Energy experts and those who advocate fighting climate change expressed doubts before the conference that it would amount to anything other than a PR opportunity for the companies to burnish their image without making meaningful changes.
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I’m not a Catholic and I miss JP II.
Yeah, exactly. But this fat old Argentinian nitwit believes that he knows it all, can issue dictates on anything that flits across his decrepit left wing mind, and that, for some reason or another, we should all care about what he says. Sorry, he cant even do the job that is supposedly his, so why should anybody care about his opinions on other matters (about which neither he nor anybody else in the Vatican has more than an NPR knowledge)?
Words can't describe how much I miss him.
Heck, bring back Benedict!
The Pope’s power and influence is only as great as Catholics grant him. Why anyone pays any attention or respect to this evil quisling is way above my pay grade.
Two years ago, I went to Easter Mass. After about 10 minutes into the Mass, I got up and walked out. I never looked back. It was a years-long process. Francis pushed me over the edge.
Energy is needed to improve people’s lives, without it you have death, suffering, and misery.
This is what the Pope is advocating.
Thanks, Mrs. D! Understood.
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