The Green Pope
Once again the Holy Father strays into the mix:
Vatican City, Jan 11 (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI denounced the failure of world leaders to agree to a new climate change treaty in Copenhagen last month, saying today that world peace depends on safeguarding God's creation.
He issued the admonition in a speech to ambassadors accredited to the Vatican, an annual appointment during which the pontiff reflects on issues the Vatican wants to highlight to the diplomatic corps.
Benedict has been dubbed the "green pope" for his increasingly vocal concern about the need to protect the environment.
Under his watch, the Vatican has installed photovoltaic cells on its main auditorium to convert sunlight into electricity and has joined a reforestation project aimed at offsetting its CO2 emissions.
For the pontiff, it's a moral issue: Church teaching holds that man must respect creation because it's destined for the benefit of humanity's future.
Two points. World peace is <i>not</i> dependent on fixing this non-existent crisis any more than it was 1,000 or 2,000 or 5,000 years ago; totalitarian governments run by evil men are responsible for the world's ills. (Note to Oliver Stone: I don't mean George Bush.)
Second, can we finally admit that this is a concerted leftist effort using whatever means necessary to rape the West of its wealth?
Here's the link.
Why the #@$%! does the pope keep inserting himself into this debate? Don't they have their hands full over @ the Vatican protecting [the unborn] God's creation?
What if some brave soul dated to suggest to Benedict that "world [including Middle East] peace depends on safeguarding [i.e., a permanent halt to rocket attacks from Gaza] God's creation [that includes Israeli towns and villages]"?
No, that doesn't apply, does it. What a stinking travesty.
Will the Pope's apologists now stop, err, apologizing for his rank imbecility on the matter of the environment??
The Pope needs to worry about thousands of his coworkers having the 11 year old Weener salad and lay off the meterology forecasts.
I think the word peace is responsible for more trouble in the world than a whole lot of other things. As usual, it is preached about to the peaceful instead of to the troublemakers.
I think war has a bad reputation. sometimes war is just the thing.
I was gonna only comment with a deep heavy *SIGH* (really under the weather) ... but Honey kinda sorta said what I woulda on a better day.
Cheers, Honey!
Maggie