Hillary Clinton Ties Herself to Francis on Climate Change

“We’re not the radicals on the fringe, we’re actually increasingly becoming more of a mainstream”.

Food & Water Watch activists at the Moral Action on Climate Justice rally on the National Mall in Washington, DC, this morning.

Cizik has been among very few evangelicals who have spoken out publicly on climate change.

The Pope gives clear and loud clarion call to the world’s rich nations to begin paying their “grave social debt” to the poor and take concrete steps on climate change. Follow his urging to become good stewards of the earth.

Rally organizers embraced this quote; an abridged version was written on banners – one in English, the other in Spanish – hung on either side of a stage set up for speakers and performers.

The pope of the Catholic Church is not only a religious leader, but also the leader of a sovereign nation: the Holy See. Implementing an agreement with robust limits on emissions will first require honoring commitments already been made, including promises by developed countries to spend $100 billion a year by 2020 to help the developing world mitigate its contribution to climate change and adapt to a warming world. Several other speakers presented as well. “‘Those people in the environmental movement, let them take care of it.’ No, it’s our responsibility because it is our common home, and all of those in this country have the moral responsibility to get involved”. And we look at this as having been probably the single greatest coalition-building exercise on this topic ever. It is crucial that we ensure that financial flows being channeled into the fight against climate change can be tracked, so that citizens can hold their governments and institutions to account.

“Now is the time for courageous actions and strategies, aimed at implementing a culture of care and an integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring dignity to the excluded, and at the same time protecting nature”, Francis said.

“In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and disadvantaged”, the pope said. “I would hope and pray that he makes the most of the moment….”

“I find it encouraging that you are proposing an initiative for reducing air pollution”, Pope Francis told President Obama at the White House.

“He’s talking more to the American public and that’s, that’s the way he would reach any of the members of Congress I think”, Michael says.

On Thursday, Pope Francis became the first pontiff to address a joint meeting of Congress. His speech touched on a number of societal issues including Europe’s refugee and migrant crisis, climate change, the death penalty and income inequality.