I see the pope has the number on the phoney "protectorates"
(omnipotent moral busibodies and the cynical opportunists who use
them) - just like C.S. Lewis did. ~ Janice
The original
document
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/peace/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20071208_xli-world-day-peace_en.html
and a salient quote:
"The emerging counties are hungry for energy, but at times this
hunger is met in a way harmful to poor countries which, due to their
insufficient infrastructures, including their technological
infrastructures, are forced to undersell the energy resources they do
possess. At times, their very political freedom is compromised by
forms of protectorate or, in any case, by forms of conditioning which
appear clearly humiliating."
Two separate threads [refresh browsers]:
The Pope condemns the climate-change scaremongers
Daily Mail ^ | December 11, 2007 | Simon Caldwell
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937992/posts
The Pope condemns the climate change prophets
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | December 11, 2007 | SIMON CALDWELL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938341/posts
Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change
prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming
must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology.
The leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics suggested that
fears over man-made emissions melting the ice caps and causing a wave
of unprecedented disasters were nothing more than scare-mongering.
The German-born Pontiff said that while some concerns may be valid it
was vital that the international community based its policies on
science rather than the dogma of the environmentalist movement.
His remarks will be made in his annual message for World Peace Day on
January 1, but they were released as delegates from all over the
world convened on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali for UN
climate change talks.
The 80-year-old Pope said the world needed to care for the
environment but not to the point where the welfare of animals and
plants was given a greater priority than that of mankind.
"Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of
tomorrow," he said in the message entitled "The Human Family, A
Community of Peace".
"It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out
prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited
by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with
the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development
capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting
environmental balances.
"If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be
justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of
development of various countries and the need for solidarity with
future generations.
"Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and
postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint
decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken."
Efforts to protect the environment should seek "agreement on a model
of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all
while respecting environmental balances", the Pope said.
He added that to further the cause of world peace it was sensible for
nations to "choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of
unilateral decisions" in how to cooperate responsibly on conserving
the planet.
The Pope's message is traditionally sent to heads of government and
international organisations.
His remarks reveal that while the Pope acknowledges that problems may
be associated with unbridled development and climate change, he
believes the case against global warming to be over-hyped.
A broad consensus is developing among the world's scientific
community over the evils of climate change.
But there is also an intransigent body of scientific opinion which
continues to insist that industrial emissions are not to blame for
the phenomenon.
Such scientists point out that fluctuations in the earth's
temperature are normal and can often be caused by waves of heat
generated by the sun. Other critics of environmentalism have compared
the movement to a burgeoning industry in its own right.
In the spring, the Vatican hosted a conference on climate change that
was welcomed by environmentalists.
But senior cardinals close to the Vatican have since expressed doubts
about a movement which has been likened by critics to be just as
dogmatic in its assumptions as any religion.
In October, the Australian Cardinal George Pell, the Archbishop of
Sydney, caused an outcry when he noted that the atmospheric
temperature of Mars had risen by 0.5 degrees celsius.
"The industrial-military complex up on Mars can't be blamed for
that," he said in a criticism of Australian scientists who had
claimed that carbon emissions would force temperatures on earth to
rise by almost five degrees by 2070 unless drastic solutions were enforced.
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