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Trump’s coal plan disastrous, sends US energy “back to the past”: Vatican

US energy, climate decisions like a “boomerang that will come back…especially to poor people” On Friday, a senior Vatican official said Pope Francis was concerned that under the Trump administration, US energy and climate policy was sending the country “back to the past” after decisions were made to withdraw from the Paris climate accord and […]

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Pope appears to back native tribes in Dakota Access Pipeline conflict

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Thousands protested Dakota Access Pipeline last year By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY, Feb 15 (Reuters) – Pope Francis appeared on Wednesday to back Native Americans seeking to halt part of the Dakota Access Pipeline, saying indigenous cultures have a right to defend “their ancestral relationship to the earth”. The Latin American pope, who has often

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Three energy-related ideas for Pope Francis to consider

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Pope Francis in a unique position to influence global debate over energy and environment When Pope Francis issued his climate encyclical earlier this year, I harshly criticized him for being a neo-Luddite technology hater who had it in for the energy industry. Now that the Pope has toned down his views, perhaps the time has come for

Pope Francis, ‘green’ mayors ignore practical reality of decarbonizing global economy

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Considering the huge challenges of transitioning to a low-carbon economy will take your breath away Mayors from around the world gathered at the Vatican this week to talk about climate change and the political will needed to decarbonize the global economy as soon as possible. But is it just political will that’s lacking? One hears the argument

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Heed Pope’s encyclical: Iowa Catholic leaders to 2016 field

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Pope’s encyclical focuses on environment, income inequality DES MOINES, Iowa – Roman Catholic leaders in the early voting state of Iowa have called on candidates for president to follow the teachings of Pope Francis and focus as much on the environment and income inequality in 2016 as they have in past elections on opposing gay marriage and

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Naomi Klein featured at Vatican environment conference

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Naomi Klein says she never expected to be invited to the Vatican VATICAN CITY – The Vatican added yet another strange bedfellow to its expanding ecological alliance Wednesday, hosting Canadian anti-capitalist eco-crusader Naomi Klein at a conference on saving the planet. Klein, author of “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate,” acknowledged Wednesday that, “as a secular Jewish

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Pope Francis encyclical on environment wrong in so many ways

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Pope Francis encyclical doesn’t offer much factual support By Kenneth P. Green for Troy Media CALGARY, AB – As pretty much everyone in the world knows by now, Pope Francis published an encyclical recently On Care for Our Common Home, which discusses all things environmental – climate change, of course, but also air pollution, water

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Pope Francis should get over his issues with technology

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Heeding Pope Francis – and his environmental supporters – would drag the global economy backward A few weeks ago, Pope Francis released his climate change encyclical, in which he inveighed against the evils of the “technocratic paradigm,” and suddenly everyone’s a Luddite. History buffs will recall the Luddites as early 19th century English textile workers who

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