re: Pope says humanity will 'go down' if it does not address climate change

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If humanity "goes down", seems to me it would be God's will. So what's he got a problem with?

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What a convenient way to completely shirk the responsibility of free will. While we're at it, why bother trying to stop NK from starting WWIII? If a nuclear winter and mass extinction happen, clearly it was God's will, right?

Lighten up, Francis.

Well that does it for me. Now I have zero doubt that Climate change aka global warming is all a scam. If THIS fake pope said it then I know it isn't true.

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asked this question before and I will ask it again: what coastal areas that were inhabitable when Inconvenient Truth came out are not inhabitable now?

I asked this AT LEAST 5 times the other day on this board and nobody responded.

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Well no offense but the fact its a stupid question might have something to do with the crickets. Maybe ask Google next time.


The story of Kivalina, the Iñupiat town in Alaska that will soon have to relocate due to climate change, has been developing for years. But now, Triple Pundit is out with a profile of two other U.S. communities whose residents share the dubious distinction of becoming the country’s first climate refugees.

“For many Americans, the real evidence of global warming is at home, in our houses, and on our streets,” the online news outlet notes. Kivalina has received considerable coverage over the last four or so years “because of the financial dilemma that was increasingly facing a Native American town that couldn’t afford to move, and didn’t have the government funding to make it happen the way the residents wanted.”

That situation has become increasingly dire, with the cost of relocating the town’s 400 residents estimated at US$100 to $400 million. But now, Kivalina isn’t alone: The Chukchi Sea community of Shismaref voted to move in 2016, and the predominantly Native American community of Isle de Jean Charles in coastal Louisiana “had been reduced to a strip of land large enough to maintain a county road and a diminishing number of houses” by 2015, Triple Pundit notes. “Today, the town is under full assault from rising gulf waters and has become uninhabitable.”

Isle de Jean Charles has fared better than the two more northerly communities—the price tag for relocating the 25 remaining families is lower, and the dollars came through from the U.S. government a couple of years ago. Funding for the Alaskan relocations died in Congress in 2016.

According to Alice Thomas, climate displacement program manager at Refugees International, the initial wave of climate refugees points to the lack of federal programs in the U.S. to address a type of relocation that will become more common with time. “There’s no federal or state law — no institution in the United States — with a mandate for how are we going to manage relocation internally,”

Socialists gonna socialist.

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scientists have clearly said what path we have to follow," he said, referring to a consensus by scientists that global warming is caused by human activity such as fossil fuels.

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There is also a consensus by scientist against the existence of God, but he doesn't fall back on what they've "clearly said"...j/s

Not come to Christ mind you, but climate change?

Must have missed that passage in the great commission directive where Christ said go out and save the planet.

How much money did the Catholic Church give to the Global Climate Fund this year?


This guy needs to stick to saving souls, and let the adults worry about the planet.

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This guy needs to stick to saving souls,

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No MAN can save souls!! We are just supposed to arrange the meeting with the ONE who can.

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I can't wrap my head around why anyone would listen to the Pope on anything other than religious matters.

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Apart from being the head of the Catholic Church, he is also the head of Vatican City - an independent nation recognized by all the governments of the world. He is thus a world leader who also speaks for his government in the world of politics.