The Pope vs. Global Warming By Joseph D'Hippolito
London’s Daily Mail reported on December 12 that the Vatican released the remarks the pope will make in his annual January 1 address, “The Human Family, A Community of Peace.” The release coincided with the December 11 opening of the United Nations’ conference on climate change in the Indonesian resort of Bali.
“We need to care for the environment,” Benedict writes. “It has been entrusted to men and women to be protected and cultivated with responsible freedom, with the good of all as a constant guiding criterion.”
That responsible freedom rejects both the panic motivating global warming activists and a radical environmentalism that demands humanity’s subjugation to ecology.
“Human beings, obviously, are of supreme worth vis-à-vis creation as a whole,” Benedict continues. “Respecting the environment does not mean considering material or animal nature more important than man.
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