Andy Kondrat | 1 year ago | Comments (5)
Last week, we mentioned that Pope Benedict XVI (that's fancy for "The Sixteenth") spoke out on the topic of climate change on his way to Australia. Now that he's made his way to Sydney, the Pope is continuing on that same topic, telling a crowd of over 140,000 that humans are destroying the earth through it's "insatiable consumption."
Speaking at a youth festival, the Pope stated, "Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our earth: erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption." The Vatican has also started purchasing carbon credits to offset the nation's energy consumption in an effort to show in deed what the Pontiff states in word. More
