This is Pope Francis. He is a hero to at least 1.2 billion Roman Catholics in the world. Somehow that makes no impression on the people that effect the Earth's climate with their industrial product that renders greenhouse gas pollution.
There are currently 7.6 billion people on Earth. Pope Francis speaks for 1.2 billion of those people. No one heeds his words? Really?
June 9, 2018By Elisabetta Povoledo
Pope Francis has called for swift action to care for the environment and the planet.
Rome — Three years ago, (click here) Pope Francis issued a sweeping letter that highlighted the global crisis posed by climate change and called for swift action to save the environment and the planet.
On Saturday, the pope gathered money managers and titans of the world’s biggest oil companies during a closed-door conference at the Vatican and asked them if they had gotten the message.
“There is no time to lose,” Francis told them on Saturday.
Pressure has been building on oil and gas companies to transition to less polluting forms of energy, with the threat of fossil-fuel divestment sometimes used as a stick.
The pope said oil and gas companies had made commendable progress and were “developing more careful approaches to the assessment of climate risk and adjusting their business practices accordingly.” But those actions were not enough....
