We are losing the attitude of wonder, contemplation, listening to creation, Francis told an audience on World Environment Day last year. The implications of living in a horizontal manner [is that] we have moved away from God, we no longer read His signs.
Its not just the pope who has been more active on environmental issues in recent years. South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has also been a vocal environmental activist, calling for countries to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions and stop using hydrocarbon fuels.
Tutu recently coauthored an oped in the UK Guardian with Former Irish president Mary Robinson calling for the European Union to do more to address global warming, labeling it as a civil rights issue as well as an environmental one.
Addressing climate change is also a matter of justice. If we are to be true to our commitment to human rights, then rich nations owe a fair and honest deal to the worlds most vulnerable regions, Robinson and Tutu wrote. The people on the frontline of climate change have often done the least to cause it.
This means reducing the suffering of those worst affected and acting now to avoid further suffering in the future, the two added. It also means sharing technology, funds and solutions to help vulnerable countries and communities to engage fully in the transition to a low-carbon world. As the cradle of the industrial revolution, Europe created our carbon-heavy world and must lead the world into its next, low-carbon, safer and more caring chapter.
Tutu has even come out against the Keystone XL pipeline which will bring oil from Canada to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Keystone has become a hot button issue in the U.S. and environmentalists have been trying to kill the project for years.
The verdict on whether to approve or reject the Keystone XL pipeline could, in just one stroke, confirm or condemn Americas prospects for climate leadership, wrote Tutu and other b-list celebrities and scientists to the State Department.
This is a US policy decision that will have truly global significance. Keystone XL is his chance to set a correction course on US energy policy and open up a new clean energy future, Tutu and the others added. We hope he does..................
If we as a nation are going to go medieval. Forget the Inquisition and let’s restore The Crusades.
More to the point, they selectively chose not to enforce law that didn't promote their statist, fascist ideology.
We pretend our beloved US is still a constitutional republic in which elections merely determine who will represent our interests, subject to the constitution. The president has devolved into a party leader, whose first and last purpose is to look out for party interests. There isn't a dime's worth of difference between the purpose of the modern American President and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Both exist to preserve and advance the party.
Brendan Eich, newly appointed head of Mozilla, was forced to resign because of 2008 support of traditional marriage. The gay (sodomite) lobby reigns supreme!