oped: The Pope as well as the Catholic Church are so wrong on so many issues as is Islam...I do believe we are in the era of the last Pope as is written in the Bible 'The New Testament!
I grew up in a Catholic Family...sent to Catholic School through the 3rd grade...I loved the teachings of Jesus and still do...but not a practicing Catholic since the 3rd grade...Jesus never said one must belong to organized religion...but to adhere to his teachings pray and in a quiet place...confess to the teachings and adhere.
Well ya are probably wondering what I meant since the 3rd grade...well my older brother was a Alter Boy...I told him I wanted to follow in his footsteps...being that *most* all young boys admire their older brothers and all...well he told me not to..I said why...he said just because... trust me!...Hmmm being the scrapper that I was I had to find out why...so I joined the group...ah ha...one day a priest told me to drink the sacraficial ...stating it was just grape juice...I took a sip and said hell no this is wine ( I grew up in a family who loved bbq & beer so I knew the difference...I was taught beer/wine was for adults not kids but bbq was for all...)...he put his hands on my shoulders and said just drink...I got the jist of what was about to come (Thinking back on the warning my older brother gave me) so I being a student of Karate kicked him in the shins broke free and ran like hell all the way home...told my Mom what had happened and that I no longer wanted to go to Catholic School...she pulled me out of school and registered me in public school...which at the time... 1950's was not what it is now (It's definetly perverted now)...it was cool back then:)
The jist and morale to the story is...the Catholic Church/Islam has a history of corruption abuse and scandals...I saw it in the 3rd grade...maybe I was a smart kiddo or just a scrapper...at any rate until the Catholic Church/Islam and all other *organized churches* with a history of scandals and abuse fess up and clean up I will continue to worship God/Jesus in private...and to be honest being a Independent worshiper is rewarding and full filling...this also applies to politics..as we all know both sides of the aisle GOP/DNC one in the same are corrupted and full of scandal..and in dire need of a severe house cleaning! Need I say more?
Now on to the article...you be the judge !
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by:Mark LaRochelle
Pope Frances’ encyclical, Laudato Si’, refers vaguely to “the symptoms of sickness evident in the soil, in the water, in the air and in all forms of life,” which he blames on “consumerism” and “globalization,” which, he says, are harming the poor.
Is that true?
Regarding soil and water, in the U.S., the National Centers for Environmental Information maintains a series of environmental indicators for various risks. The environmental indicator for runoff risk for drinking water has not increased, but decreased sharply — by 60 percent from 1973-74 to 1996-97, the latest period for which data is posted. Likewise, soil erosion on cropland is not increasing, but decreasing, having declined 41 percent between the first (1982) and most recent (2010) Natural Resources Inventory.
Likewise, according to the EPA, US air quality has improved dramatically. In 1980-2013, ground-level ozone was down 33 percent, nitrogen dioxide 54-60 percent, sulfur dioxide 81 percent, carbon monoxide 84 percent, and lead 92 percent. Particulate matter was down 34 percent in just 2000-2013. In Air Quality in America, Joel M. Schwartz and Steven F. Hayward show that available data going back to 1900 document that air quality was improving at the same rates even before passage of the Clean Air Act in 1970. (No wonder environmentalists have switched to calling carbon dioxide – the breath of life for plants – a “pollutant.”)
Globally, the United Nations’ 2014 Millenium Development Goals Report documents similar news:
· The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation reports that from 1990 to 2010, the share of the world’s people without sustainable access to safe drinking water was cut in half, meeting its goal five years ahead of schedule. In 1990-2012, the share of the world’s population with access to an improved water source increased from 76 to 89 percent, meaning that more than 2.3 billion people gained access to an improved source of drinking water.
· Meanwhile in developing regions, the proportion of undernourished people decreased from 24 percent in 1990–1992 to 14 percent in 2011–2013. From 1990 to 2012, the proportion of the world’s children under the age of five who were estimated to be stunted – having inadequate height for their age – declined from 40 to 25 percent.
· Perhaps most important, in 1990-2013, the global adult mortality rate declined from 198 to 152 per 1000 population. The mortality rate for children under age five dropped almost 50 per cent, from 90 to 48 per 1,000 live births in 1990-2012. The maternal mortality ratio dropped by 45 percent between 1990 and 2013, from 380 to 210 deaths per 100,000 live births. Globally, life expectancy in 1990-2013 increased by 6 years, to age 71. In Africa, it increased more than twice as fast, by 8 years in 2000-2013.
The Pope’s encyclical emphasized traditional Christian concern for the poor, but attacked globalization, which is responsible for the unprecidented improvement in the condition of the world’s poor in recent decades. Capitalism has done more for the poor in the past ten years than charity has done throughout all of history.
The liberal Fareed Zakaria, writing in the Washington Post, praised the Pope’s embrace of global warming hysteria, yet even he admitted, “The encyclical is gloomy. But in fact, remarkable changes are taking place that could put the planet on a much more sustainable path.”
That’s true: There’s ample reason for optimism, if we don’t sabotage the poor by restricting their access to affordable energy.
Mark LaRochelle is a science journalist in Washington, DC, and former director of publications for the Science & Environmental Policy Project, where he assisted Dr. S. Fred Singer, emeritus professor of atmospheric physics at the University of Virginia. Mr. LaRochelle has reported on environmental science for a number of publications over 20 years.
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