From the UK Guardian:
Pope Francis recruits Naomi Klein in climate change battle
She is one of the world’s most high-profile social activists and a ferocious critic of 21st-century capitalism. He is one of the pope’s most senior aides and a professor of climate change economics. But this week the secular radical will join forces with the Catholic cardinal in the latest move by Pope Francis to shift the debate on global warming.
Naomi Klein and Cardinal Peter Turkson are to lead a high-level conference on the environment, bringing together churchmen, scientists and activists to debate climate change action. Klein, who campaigns for an overhaul of the global financial system to tackle climate change, told the Observer she was surprised but delighted to receive the invitation from Turkson’s office.
“The fact that they invited me indicates they’re not backing down from the fight. A lot of people have patted the pope on the head, but said he’s wrong on the economics. I think he’s right on the economics,” she said, referring to Pope Francis’s recent publication of an encyclical on the environment.
When Pope Francis was first elected, I thought he was a good man - humble and true to the Holy Spirit. No more. He is as corrupt as the rest of them...
People forget that for all of its faults, it was Capitalism that made the first world nations very rich. We did not take the capital from other nations. Capital is fungible, it can be created. It can be destroyed. Who are we to say that OK - now the rules have changed and none of the third-world nations can become rich.
Who are we to condemn these people, these households, these families and communities to a life of wretched poverty all to bolster some ideological dream, some narrative that has no basis in fact.
I rebuke these weak-minded ideologues. I spit on them. Pope Francis included.
Yes, he is old and yes, he will die sometime but how much needless misery will he cause in the interim because he chose to associate with the glitterati instead of his true flock.
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