Seattle Globalist: Pope Francis is not the first to urge humanity to change its wasteful ways. But he may have given the harshest lecture last week, when he released an encyclical condemning policymakers weak responses to climate change problems, calling developed countries to cut carbon emissions, and linking climate change and social inequity.
The deterioration of the environment and of society affects the most vulnerable people on the planet, the encyclical reads. Both everyday experience and scientific research...