Bishop Hill The encyclical leaked
Jun 15, 2015 Climate: WG3 A copy of the encyclical has been leaked to the Italian press. A copy can be seen here, for those who speak Italian. Maurizio advises that his impression is very much that this is going to be seen as a damp squib. He points in particular to this paragraph (translated mostly by Mr Google):
For poor countries, the priority should be the eradication of poverty and social development of their inhabitants; at the same time the scandalous level of consumption of certain privileged sectors of their population must be considered and better counter corruption. Of course, they must also develop less polluting forms energy production, but for this they have need to rely on help from countries that are grown much at the expense of pollution today the planet. The direct exploitation of abundant solar energy requires that you establish mechanisms and subsidies so that developing countries can have access to technology transfer, for technical assistance and financial resources, but always paying attention to concrete conditions, since the compatibility of the systems with the context for which they are proposed is not always properly assessed. The costs would be low when compared to risk of climate change. In any case, it is above all an ethical choice, based on solidarity of all peoples.
Reader Comments (58)
jamspid
Why don't you wait for Thursday as well? So far I see and have heard nothing to support that view.
AFAIK the leak was to L'Espresso, the weekly arm of the La Repubblica newspaper, perfect radical-chic champagne-socialism Italian version of the Guardian, with no cliché spared, including the worst of climatechangeism (in 2008 one of their journalists managed to out-rubbish the Daily Mail on the WWF hoax story of drowning polar bears).
So all the brouhaha about the Encyclical being undermined by the leak, it's just Papal pap.
I think Jamspid (Jun 16, 2015 at 9:33 AM) has hit the nail most squarely on the head. The Pope should be more concerned with the inhumanity that man is inflicting upon his fellow man rather than any perceived “inhumanity” that is being perpetrated on the planet. My favourite way to put things into perspective is to consider which is smoother, a billiard ball or the Earth? Scaled against each other, it is the Earth, which has to make you realise that no matter how big the human structure, or “damage”, it is but a piffling inconsequentiality to the planet, when even the mountains are nothing but the slightest of blemishes.
Another step down the spiral staircase to oblivion and irrelevance for the catholic church. A path previously trodden by the Church of England
In an extraordinarily frank document, the Pope lambasts rich countries for “looting” the world and takes aim at bankers and climate sceptics for accelerating its decline.
He warns that the world is facing widespread crop failure, economic ruin, mass migration and the destruction of entire eco-systems.
“If the current trend continues this century we could witness climate change unlike anything seen before and the unprecedented destruction of eco-systems, with serious consequences for all of us,” he writes.
He sounds like Jim Jones, Paul Krugman and Michael Mann all rolled into one. I do believe that the devil has taken form in the Pope! I am not religious and am quite ignorant of religious teachings, but isn´t there something written about the devil taking on disguises?
Or,as a mate of mine once said: "..a damp squid..."
Some Canadian comments thereupon
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2015/06/y2kyoto-is-it-r.html
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