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Homer, the quote you referenced that begins with the words "Unsustainable consumption coupled with a record human population..." is not from Pope Francis. It is from "Climate Change and the Common Good," a statement from two Vatican advisory boards not composed of exclusively Catholics OR scientists, and which have zero - 0 - magisterial authority.

I hope we will all be careful not to attribute to the Pope statements made by people who have no ecclesial authority.

Keep in mind that back in 1968, a "Papal Advisory Board" came out in favor of contraception. And what was the papal response? Pope Paul VI rejected their conclusions and came out re-affirming the traditional Catholic moral objection to contraception in his encyclical "Humanae Vitae."

In contrast with the "advisors'" views, here's something that quotes Pope Francis himself:

The Spectator on the Global Left 'Misrepresenting' the Pope

The Heartland Institute last week paid for a translation of the papal text itself and found the pontiff comes off as rather reasonable on the matter of the environmental encyclical, saying there is a limit to what we currently know about climate change and that the Church’s duty is to speak only what is true, not to hypothesize on matters of science. These are positions with which climate skeptics fully agree, and which the UN and U.S. alarmists ordinarily consider anathema.
“An encyclical, which must be magisterial, must proceed only on the basis of certainties, on things that are certain,” said the pope (Note direct papal quote.)
His Holiness also said the draft of the document he received from his aides contained much that was uncertain and had to be edited out of the final text of the encyclical. Specifically, the encyclical might mention a hypothesis for informational purposes in footnotes, but unproven claims would not be put in the body of the document, he said. This is because the encyclical is “doctrinal and must be certain,” Francis said (Note direct papal quote)
That sort of careful thinking is the opposite of what the global left has triumphantly been attributing to Francis on this issue.

This can also be found in a previously posted Free Republic article:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3298015/posts

It's important to distinguish between what the Pope said, and what the Left said he said. Anyone who does that is joining the Left in their disinformation campaign.

Vatican staffers wrote those words and they knew full well that this secular humanist ‘pope’ would eat it up!

I’ve read all you wrote and know full well that this began about the time of the evil Vatican II. Those popes following Pius XII carried the ball all the way up to Francis....who himself is an eager NWO type.

Good to know, waiting....