The climate change conference in Paris follows a string of similar summits that have all been largely failures, to create an international agreement to combat climate change. But, Time magazine said, “there is a new player in town this year who could change everything: Pope Francis.”
On the first day of the conference Francis said, “I am not sure, but I can say to you ‘now or never.’ Every year the problems are getting worse. We are at the limits. If I may use a strong word I would say that we are at the limits of suicide.”
Paris banned demonstrations and marches in the wake of the terrorist attacks. But activists put 20,000 pairs of shoes in the Place de la Republique to symbolize absent marchers on the eve of the summit. Pope Francis sent a pair of his shoes too, so he could show solidarity with protestors against climate change. Incidentally, Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations followed suit and sent a pair of jogging shoes as well.
Pope Francis used his moral authority through his climate encyclical, released in June, which generated wide political response from global leaders including President Obama who tweeted his support for it, and Joe Biden who “read it from cover to cover.”
“In fact, it’s Pope Francis’s populist framework on caring for God’s creation that may prove most effective in the Paris negotiations,” wrote Time magazine. “When Francis worries about the victims of climate change, he’s more concerned about the poor and excluded—not the whales.”
In his encyclical Francis argued that there is an “intimate relationship between the poor and the fragility of the planet.” He argued that today’s environmentalist “must hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”
That language was a winning formula for the politicians gathered in Paris. President Obama said, to the United Nations in his speech in September, “As His Holiness Pope Francis has rightly implored the world, this is a moral calling.”
EPA Administrator, Roman Catholic Gina McCarthy went on the road with the pope’s message, speaking at two flagship Catholic Universities, Jesuit run Georgetown University and the University of Notre Dame. She also co-authored an op-ed with Blase Cupich, Pope Francis’s handpicked archbishop of Chicago in which they said that Americans had a “moral obligation to act on climate.”
The Obama administration has collaborated with Pope Francis on climate change, and has made it a bread-and-butter mainstream issue.
Because of the pope’s popularity, his message on climate change gives domestic and global leaders political cover to take new actions to address climate. And in September, ten House Republicans did just that, writing a resolution citing the pope in their call for the Republican Party to get serious about climate change.
Pope Francis laid the groundwork action in Paris and pointed the way forward. He has changed the discussion. Instead of happening from above it is now happening from below by popular demand in response to the papal appeal. “Francis has given the leaders gathered in Paris the vision and the space to make change.” And they could not resist his powerful moral voice.
This is the stuff of Bible prophecy. Without globalization, and without universal “solidarity,” Rome will never be able to insert herself in world affairs or press for universal Sunday laws. But now, in the name of climate change, Pope Francis has merged the vulnerable poor with climate to effect a powerful argument and placed the political and moral weight of the Vatican above global decision makers insisting on a moral dimension that provided them with the political instruction they needed, and brought them all into the agreement. What an achievement!
“And all the world wondered…” Revelation 13:3
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Sean Taylor
Thursday December 31st, 2015 at 05:10 PMNow there talking about the “Green Sabbath or Green Sunday.” They are saying if the whole world kept the Green Sunday Sabbath just once it would immediately lower CO2 by 15% eliminating climate change. If the whole world continued going to church on the Green Sabbath and worshiping God and rested on Green Sunday the problem of climate change would be fixed and would never come back.
This is perhaps the greatest HOAX the world has ever witnessed. This is the Sunday law and the mark of the beast for all those going along with this evil plan!!! Isn’t it time to come out and be separate as per the Bibles instructions.
And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.Revelation 18:1-5
Richard Paul Holt
Tuesday January 5th, 2016 at 06:55 PMThe Pope should read his Bible, it clearly states. Gen8 V22 The Jerusalem Bible . As long as the earth lasts, sowing and reaping, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall cease no more. That is climate change as expressed by GOD, the Pope should tell all the sheep to read their Bibles instead of preaching rubbish. The IPCC come out with this and other Al Gore lies, ( And that was what the British Law Courts deemed to be.) So the Pope should not go along with lies and tell the truth. 95% of all CO2 emissions come from the oceans, seas, etc. The Pope must be aware of this fact, he is surrounded by the worlds top scientists or meant to be.What GOD said dates back about 4500 years. What can be noted was expressed 1400 years ago plus, by the Peruvian Indians when they saw drastic changes in weather patterns, we get the term El Nino from them, and we have adulterated that. Some scientists looked into what was the cause of this, and we now know that every 1400 years our Electro Magnetic Field depletes 50%, so we are now seeing the final depletion, do not panic, this was prophesied nearly 2000 years ago, and we know it will get worse. All prophesy so far as come to be, so will all the rest. Read Matt Ch24 also Rev Ch16, a couple of things that we can see are that more people now get skin cancer, as is written the sun will scorch people, and we will get sores, also we can see that the weather now gives us large hail, and it will get worse, hail weighing about 70 pounds that’s about 32 kilos. This is coming and we can do nothing about it. Maybe if we all repent and praise GOD then, well that will not happen, so all we can do is pray that it will be like the Passover. Amen.