Posted on 06/20/2015 8:05:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Pope doesn’t get a vote.
“The Pope accepts mainstream climate science that abnormal climate change is occurring and that humanity is responsible for it through the burning of fossil fuels.”
It is NOT “science”!!!
It is political BS!
If one actually believed in global warming, then this carbon credit thing wouldn’t be a good idea.
PFL
PIFFLE!
It’s models which never have been matched by measurements.
The Pope is a useful idiot.
The Pope is a useful idiot.
That should be IDIOT
Satan is at large in the Vatican
Okay. Got it. Sin payments. How wonderful, are the pimps.
Il Papa is not writing all this global warming bunkum by himself. He must have some Vatican social_justice_warrior apparatchiks at his elbow whispering this nonsense in his ears. Who is writing Il Papa’s material and stage patter?
The whole cap and trade/ global warming thing is all about downsizing America by weighing her down with a global tax (by the means of treaty), and controlling the means for which she grows. These people cannot tolerate undiluted prosperity. It makes them crazy. We had a little taste of this last year when gas prices went lower than we’ve seen in years. Then, we saw an uprising of socialist leaning pundits talk about why since gas prices are low, and people are traveling more, why we should tax it. It never ends with these people. They want your money and deliberately want to limit your means to prosper. By saddling us with burdens, they PROFIT off of our labor. Yes, PROFIT. And cap and trade is about PROFITING a government imposed bureaucracy.
The second of these things has never happened without the first. Nor can it ever be. The poor have nothing to share with the poor, except for poverty.
The pope (mistakenly) believed that the cap-and-trade and carbon credits markets had a faint whiff of capitalism, so he was reflexively against them.
Once he understands that both are nothing more than Leftist con games, he be will thoroughly on board with both, provided that the Vatican can join the grift.
“He attacks capitalism insofar as it appeals to human greed and excessive consumption and calls for the phase-out of fossil fuels.”
He wants to use the stick, not the carrot. The carbon credit folks are just slick operators looking to strike it rich. The Pope would welcome authoritarian seizure of wealth and would block the very economy that is allowing third world poor to pull themselves out of the mud. He is more like Mugabe and the late Chavez than anyone else.
Let me know when he takes over the EPA.
I fear this Pope is a scholar of "liberation theology".
Yes, I knew a couple of Latino Priests at All Saints in Tucson in the late sixties and their approach to economics and culture was much the same. Good men but wrong headed.
What a fruitcake. It's probably nice and cool in his quarters during those hot Roman summers.
The Pope appears not to have read Matthew 25:14-30 and Luke 19:12-28 when he condemns Cap & Trade.
Trading and doing business is specifically encouraged. It appears to be distinguished from merely depositing money at interest.
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