‘Francis urged Catholics to repent of their sins against the environment and listed several ways to become more conscientious consumers, including “avoiding the use of plastic and paper,” “using public transportation or car-pooling” and “planting trees”’
We Catholics sometimes disagree with our Protestant brothers and sisters about what traces back to Scripture. Here we agree:
THIS IS NOT IN SCRIPTURE AT ALL. NOT VALID.
This comes from an unconfirmable fear of doing harm.
The earth has gotten warm and cold again over and over for at least an apparent billions of years, almost all of it without humanity to thank for that, and to far greater a degree than humanity is suspected of causing even now.