re: Pope Francis to issue edict on Climate Change, Greed, Social Inequality.

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Well, unless the pope has created an entirely new economic model, he has to pick between this consumption culture and a decline in poverty worldwide, or condemn to poverty the poor he wants to help in order to get real climate change through.

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he doesn't have those two options.

Another thing the Church has always been for Capitalism but not a capitalism that is it's own end. Meaning simply this, capitalism appears to be the most efficient economic system proposed, but the end of capitalism is profit (more complex but still basically that). Even capitalism needs to be guided by some type of ethical norms in society. From at-least Pope Leo XIII the Church has been for the best economic system that is guided by ethics.

Plus we don't know what the Pope is going to suggest. What I see him doing is pull from already in place Catholic Social Doctrine and try to apply it to the situation of today. He isn't going to say Governments should do this, rather he will in a very general way suggest how we should go about taking care of the earth.