Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Pope Francis has demanded governments of the world punish the poor with regressive carbon pricing, to prevent an allegedly imminent anthropogenic climate catastrophe.
Pope to oil execs: We don’t ‘have the luxury’ to wait to fight climate change
Inés San MartínJun 14, 2019
ROME – Speaking to oil company executives, Pope Francis on Friday said that climate change “threatens the very future” of humanity, adding that the “doomsday predictions” can no longer be met with disdain.
“Time is running out!” Francis said. “Deliberations must go beyond mere exploration of what can be done, and concentrate on what needs to be done. We do not have the luxury of waiting for others to step forward, or of prioritizing short-term economic benefits.”
“The climate crisis requires our decisive action, here and now and the Church is fully committed to playing her part,” he said.
…“Such a transition involves managing the social and employment impact of the move to a low-carbon society,” Francis said. “If managed well, this transition can generate new jobs, reduce inequality and improve the quality of life for those affected by climate change.”
On carbon pricing, the pontiff said that humanity is called to use natural resources “wisely,” and their use can only be considered ethical when the economic and social costs of using them are transparently acknowledged and “are fully borne by those who incur them, rather than by other people or future generations.”
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Read more: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2019/06/14/pope-to-oil-execs-we-dont-have-the-luxury-to-wait-to-fight-climate-change/
The evidence that cheap energy creates more economic opportunity than renewable energy is overwhelming.
Compare the moribund economic performance of Europe with the ongoing explosion of wealth and opportunity in the USA. While I am not denying the value of other Trump policies, there is no doubt that a significant factor in the ongoing boom in the USA is the shale gas revolution which started under President Obama, and President Trump’s efforts to keep it going, Trump’s efforts to eliminate regulatory obstacles to cheaper energy.
If a “managed” transition to renewables actually was a national economic opportunity, there would be no need for carbon taxes or other interventions, people would embrace renewables of their own free will. Renewable Europe would be the global economic leader, not the USA.
That “short term economic opportunity” his holiness sneered at has transformed lives. People in the USA who would otherwise have only known grinding poverty and want now have jobs, they now have real hope for a better future, better access to healthcare, and better educational opportunities for their kids. When oil, gas and coal finally run their course, decades or more likely centuries from now, the good all that “short term” money has done will remain.
Pope Francis’ profound economic, political and scientific ignorance on climate issues, and his apparent contempt for economic opportunities, short term or not, in my opinion has real potential to cause harm. For shame, Pope Francis.
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Francis said. “If managed well, this transition can generate new jobs, reduce inequality and improve the quality of life for those affected by climate change.”
Translation, only poor third world citizens will be affected by climate change, so we’ll tax everyone else and dole out the money where we think it’s needed, after it passes through a million sticky fingers.
His ““If managed well …” says it all. He obviously believes that there can be some sort of competent, worldwide governing body that will run things well.
The likely result of such a scheme: War, starvation, subjugation, etc. You know, all the good things socialism gave the world in the 20th Century. It took the capitalist U.S. to repeatably pull the World’s (chest) nuts out of the fire. We’re having to do it again with China, Iran, North Korea and all the other power-hungry dictatorships.
The more hysterical the alarmists become, the easier it becomes to see though their rhetoric.
So, the Pope is advocating for modern-day indulgences to the Church Of Mother Gaia.
I’m Catholic, and a professional scientist. So I feel the need to say a few things.
The business of climate change and it’s caused and likely future is outside the competence of the pope – any pope.
This pope’s response is not consistent with Catholic teaching. See how he cites … himself. I’m afraid that’s typical.
It is right for the Church to exhort Catholics and others to care for creation. But that doesn’t mean naively promoting fashionable political causes like this – quite the opposite, in fact.
It’s all very sad; depressing, even.
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Let’s start with implementing church doctrine as a means to obtain a carbon-free world:
First, require that all good Catholics do not eat any carbohydrate foods on Fridays.
Next, one year later, extend that to Fridays and Saturdays.
Next, after an addition year, extend that to Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
. . . and so on.
By my calculation, after six or seven years, people will be saying “Remember the Pope and the Catholic Church?” That will still leave five or six years before the end-of-the-world :-))
And then the group where you can’t eat pork takes over the Western world. So yes we have very little time left.
Strange, Robertvd; the Chinese eat a lot pork.
This pope doesn’t even understand Christianity, which should be his one area of expertise. He thinks Jesus messed up the Lord’s Prayer.
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Climate Change is the socialist’s last big hope of controlling the world’s economy. They are not going to give in. The over population scare bombed out. If they lose this battle I’m not sure what else they have to scare millions into submission. It’s just very sad that they’ve been able to co-oped the Pope into spreading the propaganda. They will stop at nothing.
“A Sale of Indulgences by any other name would smell as “Sweet””
And people wonder why I refer to myself as a “Recovering Catholic”😄😄😄
When you recover, what will you be?
Orthodox.
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You would think that the Pope would recognize evil cloaked in benevolence.
All the protestant reformers, through their study of the Bible believed that the papacy was antichrist, the
man of sin, the little horn, the church that presided over the death of millions in the dark ages. The Church that claims to have changed the seventh day Sabbath to Sunday.
The pope is to science what Archie is to great literature. The CAGW scam does dovetail with his worldwide socialist agenda though.
“ if managed well ”
Recall the cartoon where the fellow at a chalk board filled with equations points to:
– – and then a miracle happens – –
The head of one religion pushing a climate cult … we live in bizarre time.
Subsequent Popes will rue the day on this; for history will severely challenge the wisdom of the Catholic Church which has never paid much attention to REAL science.
As for the infallibility of the Pope myth: Does anyone believe that these days?
To be fair, papal infallibility has a very, very restricted remit. The pope is no more infallible when predicting the winner of the Derby than I am.
Francis’ problem is that he was suckered by Schellnhuber, thanks to the machinations of several German bishops. The day he declares that belief in the pronouncements of the climate extremists is an essential prerequisite for being a Catholic is the day half his members walk out and elect their own pope. Back to the 12th century — a move some might welcome (in purely religious matters, you understand!)
Not my Pope. Boy ain’t right.
A children’s Crusade in the making? How does it start?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Crusade:
A boy begins to preach in either France or Germany, claims that he had been visited by Jesus, who instructed him to lead a Crusade in order to peacefully convert Muslims to Christianity.
This time it is Greta Thunberg, not a boy. It is Al Gore, not Jesus. It is about converting Deniers to Believers. But all elements are there.
Isn’t the Crusade happening every Friday?
All these years of one supposed authority after another pounding the climate alarmist drum has given me a headache. I do not listen to that guy about anything. I mean after all he demands we not build walls and let people into our country without any screening or controls but lives in a city/state with massive walls and tightly controlled access. I mean really, a 9 y/o can see through to that blatant hypocrisy. Oh for the days of John Paul II. A Pope I could respect.
humanity is called to use natural resources “wisely,” and their use can only be considered ethical when the economic and social costs of using them are transparently acknowledged
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Fish poop in the water all creatures drink. Where is the ethics in this? Should we tax the fish to stop them pooping?
And who hasn’t had bird poop fall on their head? Where is the ethics in this? Shall we tax the birds? Is this God’s solution.
And what if the Pope shall shzt in the woods?
Who is the old man dressed in white who stands near the climate prophet Greta leaning out of a window on the St. Peter’s Square ?
It all part of the old UN agenda 21 which they’ve been working to implement for decades. Which they now call 2030 as the final deadline for implementation, as opposed to 2021. Which they were forced to delay, largely because Trump came along and threw a wrench into their plans.
The History of the Global Warming Scare
The concept of global governance was promoted in 1991 by the Club of Rome (of which Strong was a member), which issued a report called The First Global Revolution, which asserted that current problems “are essentially global and cannot be solved through individual country initiatives [which] gives a greatly enhanced importance to the United Nations and other international systems.” Also in 1991 Strong claimed that the Earth Summit, of which he was Secretary General, would play an important role in “reforming and strengthening the United Nations as the centerpiece of the emerging system of democratic global governance.” In 1995, in Our Global Neighborhood, the CGG agreed: “It is our firm conclusion that the United Nations must continue to play a central role in global governance.” the Commission’s recommendations: for instance, that some UN activities be funded through taxes on foreign-exchange transactions and multinational corporations. Economist James Tobin estimates that a 0.5 per cent tax on foreign-exchange transactions would raise $1.5 trillion annually — nearly equivalent to the U.S. federal budget. It also recommended that “user fees” might be imposed on companies operating in the “global commons.” including carbon taxes, which would be levied on all fuels made from coal, oil, and natural gas.
http://appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/GW_History.htm
It is truly no surprise that the Catholic Church would see money as the means to our salvation.
Now that the Clergy have been given the word; no more choir boys or initiates behind the alter; the Church has been looking to take its revenge.
Let’s face it. The Pope is Grumpy. He has the warmth of a hot poker up your backside. His vow of silence did nothing to improve his môod. After all, if he has to be celibate then why the h3ll should the rest of us sinners be able to enjoy ourselves?
Truly it is written; punishment will continue until moral improves.
The church of Rome has always been a trendsetter for indulgences. Perhaps the Vatican can advise on the pricing too.
I’m Catholic, and as far as his opinion goes, he’s no better than any other elected official with an opinion about what people should do.
Me, I plan to ignore this pontificating politician.
But … but … but … He is God’s representative on earth, isn’t he?
No man comes to the Father, but by me. (Jesus not the Pope) John 14:6
Warning, First Commandment violation.
As a Roman Catholic doesn’t it make your conscience twinge to disrespect your Pope like that?
“Me, I plan to ignore this pontificating politician.”
Not my Pope 😉
The Pope is a fallible human being, just like the rest of us. He has obviously been duped into believing human-caused CO2 is affecting the Earth’s weather detrimentally.
He is just as wrong about CAGW as all the rest. Like all the rest, he has no evidence that human-caused CO2 is doing anything detrimental to the Earth’s atmosphere, now or in the future.
The Synod of the Church of England is disinvesting in fossil fuels unless oil companies adhere to the Paris Agreement – the Synod minutes are not clear as to what this means because the whole hopeless crew don’t know what they are talking about! A rejected motion was that disinvestment should occur if companies did not stop exploration before 2022. So a limited level of stupidity. Meanwhile Royal Dutch Shell is investing TWO BILLION POUNDS in renewables which will keep their AGMs a bit quieter, knowing that there is subsidy involved and any ‘renewable’ needs fossil fuel backup. So win win. And Shell (bad year) revenue was 233 billions!
I sent the Bishop of Salisbury my photo of a young Hmong tribal cooking lunch on twigs and dung in his hut, but His Grace is as heartless as the Pope and was not moved. I’ll bet his palace is centrally heated.
C’mon Mr Pope. Tell us. Do we have 5 years to save the planet or 10, or maybe 12?
What we do have, is the luxury of ignoring false prophets. Whatever you claim, it will be neither new nor true.
The /Pope/ has the luxury, we don’t have the luxury. That’s the difference. It is not a luxury of.
Religion is based on faith, so is climate change / global warming – it is hardly surprising the the Pope can see synergy in conflating both.
Faith based science ? trust me ! hand me your alms.
I would have thought God might do a better job of explaining this to his “bridge”.
Pull the other leg its got bells on.
I don’t accept scientific advice from, lawyers, economists, anyone with a BA and certainly not the Pope.