Essay by Eric Worrall
“It continues to be regrettable that global crises are being squandered when they could be the occasions to bring about beneficial changes.” – but ceding national sovereignty might help.
APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION
LAUDATE DEUM
OF THE HOLY FATHER
FRANCISTO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL
ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS…
2. Eight years have passed since I published the Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’, when I wanted to share with all of you, my brothers and sisters of our suffering planet, my heartfelt concerns about the care of our common home. Yet, with the passage of time, I have realized that our responses have not been adequate, while the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point. In addition to this possibility, it is indubitable that the impact of climate change will increasingly prejudice the lives and families of many persons. We will feel its effects in the areas of healthcare, sources of employment, access to resources, housing, forced migrations, etc.
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6. In recent years, some have chosen to deride these facts. They bring up allegedly solid scientific data, like the fact that the planet has always had, and will have, periods of cooling and warming. They forget to mention another relevant datum: that what we are presently experiencing is an unusual acceleration of warming, at such a speed that it will take only one generation – not centuries or millennia – in order to verify it. The rise in the sea level and the melting of glaciers can be easily perceived by an individual in his or her lifetime, and probably in a few years many populations will have to move their homes because of these facts.
7. In order to ridicule those who speak of global warming, it is pointed out that intermittent periods of extreme cold regularly occur. One fails to mention that this and other extraordinary symptoms are nothing but diverse alternative expressions of the same cause: the global imbalance that is provoking the warming of the planet. Droughts and floods, the dried-up lakes, communities swept away by seaquakes and flooding ultimately have the same origin. At the same time, if we speak of a global phenomenon, we cannot confuse this with sporadic events explained in good part by local factors.
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11. It is no longer possible to doubt the human – “anthropic” – origin of climate change. Let us see why. The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which causes global warming, was stable until the nineteenth century, below 300 parts per million in volume. But in the middle of that century, in conjunction with industrial development, emissions began to increase. In the past fifty years, this increase has accelerated significantly, as the Mauna Loa observatory, which has taken daily measurements of carbon dioxide since 1958, has confirmed. While I was writing Laudato Si’, they hit a historic high – 400 parts per million – until arriving at 423 parts per million in June 2023. [7] More than 42% of total net emissions since the year 1850 were produced after 1990. [8]
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19. Finally, we can add that the Covid-19 pandemic brought out the close relation of human life with that of other living beings and with the natural environment. But in a special way, it confirmed that what happens in one part of the world has repercussions on the entire planet. This allows me to reiterate two convictions that I repeat over and over again: “Everything is connected” and “No one is saved alone”.
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36. It continues to be regrettable that global crises are being squandered when they could be the occasions to bring about beneficial changes. [28] This is what happened in the 2007-2008 financial crisis and again in the Covid-19 crisis. For “the actual strategies developed worldwide in the wake of [those crises] fostered greater individualism, less integration and increased freedom for the truly powerful, who always find a way to escape unscathed”. [29]
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43. All this presupposes the development of a new procedure for decision-making and legitimizing those decisions, since the one put in place several decades ago is not sufficient nor does it appear effective. In this framework, there would necessarily be required spaces for conversation, consultation, arbitration, conflict resolution and supervision, and, in the end, a sort of increased “democratization” in the global context, so that the various situations can be expressed and included. It is no longer helpful for us to support institutions in order to preserve the rights of the more powerful without caring for those of all.
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Read more: https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/20231004-laudate-deum.html
A sort of increased democratization implies ceding national sovereignty to international institutions – which the Pope proposes should be advanced on the back of “occasions” presented by global crisis.
Remind me, weren’t there a few problems, last time the Catholic Church told us which scientific theories to believe in?
Future generations will look back on this embarrassing Papal attempt to propagate scientific ignorance, much as we look back on the embarrassing efforts of the Catholic Church to suppress the theories of Galileo.
Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions. – Terry Pratchett.
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Story tip – one ULEZ is not enough
“”Camden’s Labour-run council has proposed an additional ULEZ of its own which would introduce a new 75g/km C02 band and hike charges for diesel and petrol vehicles. The council also proposes to limit families and businesses to one car per permit, down from the original three. Camden is one of London’s poorer boroughs, with 34% of residents living in households with an income of below 60% of the UK median. They must be glad the council has their interests in mind…””
https://order-order.com/2023/10/05/labour-camden-council-proposes-its-own-ulez/
The pope is a socialist. He has been led to believe climate change can be solved with socialist policies. In his mind, he gets a two-fer by promoting climate change and socialism at the same time.
What I’ve always wondered is how the global elitists convinced a sitting pope to retire early and install a new pope whose politics was more to their liking.
There is nothing is sacred anymore.
The Bible talks of charity as a personal obligation. That is, you are obligated to spend your own time and money to help the poor.
I can’t find anything in the Bible to support the notion that you can excuse this obligation by voting for government to take someone else’s money to spend on the poor
“Charity” has come to mean giving financially to a charity but, in the KJV, “charity” is the word for love. That may or may not involve giving money.
But you’re right. When it did involve giving money, as at the end Acts 4 (and into to Acts 5), it was voluntary, motivated out of love and given to the Apostles, not the Government, to distribute to those believers who needed it. Not just those who wanted it.
(Acts 5 gets into a couple who didn’t give voluntarily out of love but to “virtue signal”, claiming to give it all but didn’t. (They were free to all they got for they sold or to give nothing.)
I can’t find anything in the Bible to support the notion that you can excuse this obligation by voting for government to take someone else’s money to spend on the poor Ukrainians.
There, fixed it for ya.
Ya just gotta push whatever delusions are haunting you today.
Bergoglio (now Francis) was a socialist bishop in Argentina when then-Pope John Paul II was railing against socialist “liberation theology” in South America, having experienced the evils of socialism first-hand in Poland.
I could just imagine John Paul II pleading with Jesus in heaven to replace this apostate and heretic Pope before he does too much damage to the Church.
St John Paul II, pray for us!
Respectfully I dissent from what this pope teaches but despair is a mortal sin. If we are not in His hands, all is lost.
If we doubt the promise that the gates of hell shall not prevail against His church, then any other belief is absurd.
What time is the Biden coronation anyway?
Requiem is more likely.
Not until Trump is safely locked away in jail! Brandon can’t afford to have an opponent when he is campaigning once again from his basement! Maybe that’s where he stashes the gold bars and cash!
“ We will feel its effects in the areas of healthcare, sources of employment, access to resources, housing, forced migrations, etc.”
Actually, Pope Francis, these effects that will be felt will be 100% due to government rules and regulations to try and “stop” climate change!
Clearly the Pope is no scholar of history, because if he was, he’d realize that much of the misery and suffering that the human race has endured has been self-inflicted. Most of the 20th century famines were due to human malfeasance rather than natural disasters. And then you can add in ethnic cleansing….They had nothing to do with weather or climate.
The coming death, misery and increased poverty will be the result of idiotic net zero policies, not climate. If Francis new history, he’d also know that human life was short and harsh before the industrial revolution. Infant mortality was very high, and diseases that are treatable and curable today routinely took lives.
As far as I’m concerned, anyone who advocates for net zero and ending fossil fuels is no better than Stalin or Mao. What they are gunning for will cause every bit as much death and misery!
Next up, NOAA will publish a paper on the Virgin Birth.
Mary was a model?!
I didn’t know they had them back then. 😎
How long do models remain virgin?
Thank you Eric, good summary.
See below from the official “climate” envoy of the United States. Emphasis mine.
It seems inconsistent with the establishment clause of the first amendment of the United States Constitution.
From X (fka Twitter) today:
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Special Presidential Envoy John Kerry
Powerful words of Laudate Deum from @Pontifex
about a planet “nearing the breaking point;” diplomacy that “must be part of the solution;” and hope that COP28 marks “a change of direction” not just” pasting and papering over cracks.” His Holiness should be heard by all when he writes we can only solve this crisis if we can “count on the commitment of all.”
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John Kerry is almost as good as Joe Biden himself 🙂
For any popes amongst the assembled throng, here’s a little test for you;
Is this true or false: E=McDonalds
False.
E=Burger King
“Have it my way at …”
“Hold the lettuce, hold the pickle, special orders make us fickle, all we ask is that you let us have it our way. Have it our way …”
E=mcSQUARED, Donald.
With extra French fries please.
If I understand it correctly this Marxist Pope is being challenged by Cardinals and Bishops over his departure from scriptures. The flock is rebelling.
https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/pope-opens-synod-warns-political-calculations-ideological-battles-catholic-church
Yet he just did that.
One might think that the Pope would ask himself if God had built some safety mechanisms into the Earth’s climatic system to keep it from overheating due to GHG’s. After all, despite higher CO2 levels in the Earth’s past, we are all still here are we not?
But I guess His Holiness isn’t ready to give God credit for thinking of that.
God thought of that by creating trees, and other photosynthetic plants, which take CO2 out of the air and convert it to free oxygen. They’re also very useful for feeding people and animals, which were created a day later according to the Bible.
Statistician WM Briggs has a good analysis:
The Vatican’s New Exhortation On “Climate Change” Has Many Errors
The Pope has serious problems within the Church he runs that he has not solved. Archdiocese of Baltimore just declared bankruptcy for the usual reasons. Pro-abortion Catholics still getting communion. Archbishop Vignano’s valid criticisms.
He should stay in his religious lane. The only connection to climate change is that for true believers like Kerry, it is akin to a religion. All beliefs, no facts.
Our current Pope and the Current US president would make for one of the most uninteresting intellectual contests one could ever imagine.
I’d be no context.
Joe would forget to show up.
Contest! Not context.
There is no context wherein either of the dotards could win a fair contest. Final score, 0-0. So, it would still get decent viewership in Europe, as it would be almost exciting as Futbol.
Pope Commie The First can go pound sand
Organized religion is a disease. If you want to be religious do it on your own time, don’t try to use it as a basis to tell ME what to do.
“the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point”
WTF?
I’m sure glad I liberated myself from the Church at an early age. I recall when I was about 12 years old- at Sunday mass- the collection basket was passed to my row- I had a quarter my mother said to put in the basket- I pretended to put it in- but it stuck to my fingers- however a nun was sitting right behind me and noticed- she stood up, and said loud enough for everyone in the church to hear, “Joseph, give me that quarter that you stole from the basket”.
I am up to date on four of the five sacred sacraments (baptism, first communion, confirmation as a soldier of Christ, marriage, and extreme unction). After reading the insane Laudate Deum, I will request the fifth… just in case the Sacred Inquisition sentences me to die at the stake.
You gonna take the fifth? . . . how dare you!
A fifth of what?
Extreme unction !!!
Just stop Oil will soon put an end to that load of nonsense.
“And oh, by the way, Galileo had it wrong after all, upon considering my perception (refer to last sentence in my Note 6 in the above article), the Sun does indeed obit the Earth.”
-— Pope Francis declaration, October 2023
“P.S., as regards my Note 11 in the above article, please don’t bring up that trite phrase that ‘correlation does not equal causation’ . . . my mind is made on this particular perception.”
-— Pope Francis clarification, October 2023
The truth is out there . . . just not where one might expect to find it. 🙂
Yes, Note 6 also implies a golden, most holy straight edge ruler is being applied to cyclical reality.
“Will noone rid us of this troublesome priest?”as King Henry said of Becket That is the measure of this pontificating Pontiff
it continues to be regrettable that global crises are being squandered.
Play the suckers for any manufactured crisis. This is the biggest scam since the first of his kind said “Pay me tithes and I will intercede with God to have him forgive your sins.
A former colleague of mine grew up in New Yok’s little Italy. I asked him if he new the local mafiosi and how did you get recruited into organised crime. Apparently likely lads would start by stealing hub caps . “why?” I said “To sell” he said. “Who wants to buy used hubcaps?” I asked. “People who have had their hubcaps stolen “.” Aha” I said “The perfect market. Supply and demand exactly equal. Just like the Catholic church. First you give them guilt and fear of fire and brimstone and then for appropriate contribution of moolah forgiveness will be given”
On the other hand maybe he is just a Rahmstorff puppet. Not the first pontiff to be played by Prussians.
His Holiness is infallible only in matters
(For a comparison, Paul VI in his re-statement in 1967 of the Church’s traditional teaching on contraception made it clear that he was not speaking ex cathedra!)
Outside this limited range, he is no more infallible than the rest of us. He has no better knowledge than I do, as one Catholic journalist put it many years ago, as to who will win [insert sporting event of choice here].
In other matters as well he should, to use a French term, never pass up an opportunity to keep his mouth shut!
Sorry, but the Poop is NEVER “infallible”. The word is “authoritarian”
He is a marxist globalist zealot and a self-important narcissist who should never be in a position of head of anything.
It seems to me that the Pope has forgotten the biblical exhortation to render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasars etc. Which I take as instruction to stay in your lane, something the Pope does not do.
And neither does the archbishop of Canterbury.
I don’t care what the pope thinks. He doesn’t speak for me.
Someday all of this will be handled by the Supreme Pontiff AI system with phrases auctioned off to the highest bidder among registered diplomats and NGO teams.
Sir John Schellnhuber, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, is the author of Laudato Si, the Pope’s first satanic encyclical.
Schellnhumer was quietly put into the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, was head of the Potsdam Climate Institute, PIK, and the author of Chancellor Merkel’s Great Enerrgy Transformation, WGBU. Merkel fired Schellnhuber in 2014 when his population reduction, read genocide, opinions suddenly hit MSM.
He headed straight to the Vatican.
But the timing NOW of the Pope’s Panic is key – BRICS11 is moving to a mutipolar world, no “rules-based-order” and Ukraine is being decimated, Russia has won. And the real bombshell – the US stopped funding the war. House Speaker McCarthy was ousted by Gaetz.
“You got your money, sonny, now ye are gone bunnies”.
Get it?
The Vatican Jesuit knows the Establishment – their nervous breakdown is infectious – no mask will help, and the masks have fallen!
“The rise in the sea level and the melting of glaciers can be easily perceived by an individual in his or her lifetime, and probably in a few years many populations will have to move their homes because of these facts.”
For an average lifetime of 80 years, at 2 mm per year, average sea level would have risen 160 mm, or 6.3 inches. How many people have homes at less than 6 inches above sea level? Does Francis remember in the Gospels where Jesus said not to build one’s house on sand?
“intermittent periods of extreme cold regularly occur. One fails to mention that this and other extraordinary symptoms are nothing but diverse alternative expressions of the same cause: the global imbalance that is provoking the warming of the planet. Droughts and floods, the dried-up lakes, communities swept away by seaquakes and flooding ultimately have the same origin.”
So Francis believes that warming of the planet causes intermittent period of extreme cold. If warm is cold, then George Orwell was correct and truth is fiction.
“Droughts and floods, the dried-up lakes, communities swept away by seaquakes and flooding ultimately have the same origin.”
Does Francis even know what a “seaquake” is? An undersea earthquake that causes a tsunami? Tell us, dear learned Holy Father, how does extra CO2 in the air cause undersea earthquakes? And would less CO2 in the air prevent them?
” It continues to be regrettable that global crises are being squandered when they could be the occasions to bring about beneficial changes.”
Rahm Emmanuel said it better: “Never let a crisis go to waste.” And to whom would “changes” be beneficial? Not to billions of people deprived of useful energy…
“It is no longer helpful for us to support institutions in order to preserve the rights of the more powerful without caring for those of all.”
I have to agree partially with Pope Francis on this point. “It is no longer helpful to support” the IPCC and the UN “who preserve the rights of the” Al Gores, Klaus Schwabs, Bill Gateses, and John Kerrys of the world “without caring for” the rest of us peons who use energy to do our jobs and live our lives..
One doctrine of the Catholic Church is that the Pope is infallible when he speaks “ex cathedra”. This encyclical was definitely not “ex cathedra”, and leaves us wondering whether the Pope is Catholic.
Is the Pope Catholic & does he shit on the bears in the woods ???
In 1925, Einstein went on a walk with a young student named Esther Salaman. As they wandered, he shared his core guiding intellectual principle: “I want to know how God created this world. I’m not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are just details.”
Is God on the side of the Pope, even when the Pope protests he is on God’s side?