Tag Archives: Climate Change

Radicalism, religion and climate change

Although Christianity is now in rapid decline, secularized versions of Biblical ethics and eschatology still flourish and continue to exert a profound influence on moral and political thinking, especially in left-wing and radical circles. But a case can be made … Continue reading

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Climate Change: Sarkozy Goes There

Cross-posted on the Corner.  Count me skeptical about former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, but I had to warm, so to speak, to this comment (via Politico): Sarkozy, who hopes to secure the center-right Les Républicains party’s presidential nomination, told business … Continue reading

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Mosquito as “Enforcer” of Social Solidarity

America Magazine is, in its own way, an entertaining corner of the religious left published by Jesuits. It’s a reliable source of by-the-numbers leftism supplemented by pious distortions, holy evasions, extra helpings of sanctimony and regular hosannas for the Dear … Continue reading

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“Another Emergency”

The Economist, at it again: THE political masters of the world are gathering in a Paris traumatised by terror to consider another sort of emergency, climate change. Trivialize much? Exaggerate much? The magazine’s ‘Erasmus’ goes on to note: The unusual … Continue reading

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Pope Francis in Bolivia: The ‘Dung of the Devil’ and Other Matters

Cross-posted on the Corner. Even by the standards of this pontiff, Pope Francis’s speech yesterday in Bolivia to a crowd that included the country’s president wearing a jacket emblazoned with the face of a mass-murderer (Che Guevara, in case you … Continue reading

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Pope Francis and the “Poverty of Ambition”

Writing for the Daily Beast, Joel Kotkin on Pope Francis’s Laudato Si: With Francis’s pontifical blessing , the greens have now found a spiritual hook that goes beyond the familiar bastions of the academy, bureaucracy, and the media and reaches … Continue reading

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The Encyclical – Old Nonsense in New (Green) Clothing

Writing in Reason, Brendan O’Neill takes a more secular look at the Pope’s eco-encyclical: Here’s an extract: [W]hat will be the end result of our wicked urge to own things? Mayhem, of course. All the pollution produced in the making … Continue reading

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A Premodern/Postmodern Pope?

Cross-posted on the Corner. From First Things, an interesting take on the pope’s eco-encyclical by R.R. Reno. Here’s an extract: “Everything is connected” is [the Pope’s] mantra in Laudato Si. True to this principle, Francis links his suspicion of science … Continue reading

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Laudato Si?

Cross-posted on the Corner: There’s been some smart commentary in The Spectator from Damian Thompson, a former editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald, on Laudato si the Pope’s eco-encyclical, due to be released tomorrow, but already extensively leaked. It’s (obviously) fair … Continue reading

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From Carthage (Tennessee) to Rome

Posted earlier this week on the Corner: Al Gore, speaking recently at Berkeley: I think Pope Francis is quite an inspiring figure really. A phenomena. I’ve been startled with the clarity of the moral force that he embodies… Well I’ve … Continue reading

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