Pope Francis’s new ‘Climate Change Encyclical’

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Opinion: Pope Francis’s new ‘Climate Change Encyclical’ sneak preview

President Barack Obama meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2014. The pope visits the United States later this year to address climate change.

Here’s a sneak peak of Pope Francis’s historic “Climate Change Encyclical,” soon to be released, complete with talking points for his upcoming address to the joint session of Congress. We’ll analyze them:

The encyclical’s likely headline: “Safeguard Creation ... We are the custodians of Creation ... If we destroy Creation ... Creation will destroy us,” a public warning often repeated by the pontiff this past year, a message certain to intensify the anger of GOP climate-science deniers, Big Oil, Koch Bros, Exxon Mobil and most fossil-fuel firms, as well as their banks, investors owning their stocks and capitalists everywhere. Here’s why:

Pope Francis’s much-anticipated encyclical will be broadcast worldwide to billions, including 5,000 bishops, 400,000 priests and 1.2 billion members of the Roman Catholic Church. He will be encouraging his army of the faithful to take strong action, fight climate change and global warming threats to the environment.

The encyclical will also be translated into hundreds of languages and broadcast worldwide. At the same time, Pope Francis will be lobbying heads of state and religious leaders, and inspiring billions of people worldwide, encouraging them to join this revolution.

This historic encyclical will also set the stage for everything else Pope Francis has planned in 2015. He’s a man with a mission to save the world from the accelerating threats to the planet’s natural resources. More immediate, the encyclical will serve as major talking points for his address to the joint session of Congress in September, his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York and his December message to the historic UN Climate Conference in Paris. Many of his points on the environment are already well known.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/pope-franciss-new-climate-change-encyclical-sneak-preview-2015-04-09 

quarta-feira, 31/12/2014, às 17:00, por Amelia Gonzalez

Pope's encyclical on climate change will strengthen, or, will help a agreement?

Encíclica do Papa sobre mudança climática será empurrão para acordo?

Pensei, - (Amelia Gonzalez) - , em fazer uma retrospectiva, trazendo para os leitores os melhores (ou piores) momentos de 2014 no “mundo da sustentabilidade”. Mas repensei quando li sobre o propósito do Papa Francisco, de fazer a encíclica 2015 sobre as mudanças climáticas. A encíclica é o documento que divulga a posição da Igreja Católica sobre um tema específico.

Considerando ainda o anúncio em conjunto de China e Estados Unidos sobre suas disposições em emitir menos carbono, de fato, a sensação é de que a Conferência das Partes em Paris (COP-21), que vai acontecer em dezembro de 2015, tem tudo para ser histórica e conseguir dos líderes presentes um real acordo global no sentido de baixar as emissões. Sendo assim, melhor mesmo é olhar para a frente em vez de repisar os 20 anos de tentativas inúteis que a ONU fez de juntar os chefes de nações em torno desse objetivo.

http://g1.globo.com/natureza/blog/nova-etica-social/post/enciclica-do-papa-sobre-mudanca-climatica-sera-empurrao-para-acordo.html