The Sierra Club Sets Up Shop at the Vatican

The pope’s environmentalism grows ever more ridiculous.

George Neumayr September 1, 2017

The pope’s statements on climate change read like press releases from the Sierra Club. Even the pantheism of modern environmentalism creeps into his comments. “Listen to the cry of the Earth,” he lectured leaders this week.

The pope is still miffed that Donald Trump blew off his counsel on the Paris climate accord. Trump had responded to the pope’s lobbying with the wonderfully neutral comment, “He is something.”

Socialists, meanwhile, sing the praises of the pope. The socialist Brazilian sociologist Michael Lowy gushes about the pope’s use of environmentalism to try and undermine the free market and empower statist pols: “For Pope Francis, ecological disasters and climate change are not merely the results of individual behavior, but rather the result of the current models of production and consumption.”
Openly endorsing the anti-growth policies of the left, Pope Francis is rooting for economic decline in the West, casting it as a requirement of redistributive justice. In a burst of Malthusianism, he wrote in his environmentalist encyclical Laudato Si’: “… the time has come to accept decreased growth in some parts of the world, in order to provide resources for other places to experience healthy growth.”.....To Read More....

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