The Pope and climate change

 

September 14, 2017



It is not exactly pope-speak but Pope Francis called people who deny climate change “stupid,” using a quote from the Bible. It is a “moral responsibility,” he said, to do everything possible to alleviate the changes.

He is right. The climate is changing. It has been changing for years.

Those who deny the fact seem most intent on denying the causes and the effects. As one said, the climate has been changing since the end of the last Ice Age, there is nothing to do about it.

And, so it has, but there are many things humans can do to lessen the speed and consequences of the changes.

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