This is so sad. We all want to be good stewards of the earth. We all believe in conservation, clean air and water, but this latest push by the Bishops seems to take as gospel the decidedly not settled science of man made global warming.
In its latest Public Policy Insights newsletter, emailed to subscribers on Feb. 12, the“As the Lenten season arrives, the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change has provided Catholics, schools and organizations with more tools and resources for its annual Catholic Climate Covenant,” says the newsletter. “The Coalition was formed three and a half years ago to help implement the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) 2001 initiative ‘Global Climate Change: A Plea for Dialogue, Prudence and the Common Good.’ Launched last year, the Covenant revolves around the St. Francis Pledge, which correlates five key actions — pray, learn, assess, act and advocate — to the issues of the environment and poverty.”
According to the newsletter, “the Archdiocese of Washington’s Environmental Outreach Committee has created a particularly useful new tool: a calendar that lists 40 carbon-fasting measures individuals can take to reduce their carbon footprint.” The newsletter provides a link to the full calendar. is recommending a new way to observe Lent, which begins tomorrow. The newsletter is produced by the California Catholic Conference, the lobbying arm of the state’s bishops.
“As the Lenten season arrives, the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change has provided Catholics, schools and organizations with more tools and resources for its annual Catholic Climate Covenant,” says the newsletter. “The Coalition was formed three and a half years ago to help implement the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) 2001 initiative ‘Global Climate Change: A Plea for Dialogue, Prudence and the Common Good.’ Launched last year, the Covenant revolves around the St. Francis Pledge, which correlates five key actions — pray, learn, assess, act and advocate — to the issues of the environment and poverty.”
According to the newsletter, “the Archdiocese of Washington’s Environmental Outreach Committee has created a particularly useful new tool: a calendar that lists 40 carbon-fasting measures individuals can take to reduce their carbon footprint.” The newsletter provides a link to the full calendar.
You can view the whole calendar, here. (Well, hm. It seems to have been removed. Good thing I saved it).
March 1st, they’re suggesting that Catholics call their leaders and ask them to take action on climate change, today! Speak out! March 17th: Buy “Renewable Energy credits”?
Really, Bishops?
Really?!
You want the faithful lobbying Congress for an economy crushing Cap and Tax bill?
Who wrote this, Obama’s Science Czar, John Holdren?
March 19th asks us to learn something new about climate change… That’s what a lot of us have been doing. As evidenced by the responses at The California Catholic Daily:
Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 6:09 AM By Canisius
Ah the rotting fruit of Vatican II
Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:01 AM By Eric
Is Al Gore part of the CCC? Show reverence for the Earth? The only thing missing is the CCC refering to this planet as Holy Mother Earth. Care for our environment yes-become a tree hugging, bunny loving liberal-no way. It seems some in the Church have bought the man made global warming lie and have chosen Lent to spread the lie under the pretext of a Lenten sacrifice.
Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:03 AM By Robert L
How absurd for any Catholic orginization to be worried about carbon footprint – which is absurd in itself – no wonder our Church is in such a sorry state. With leadership like this there won’t be any followers.
Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:35 AM By Roberta G
I shudder to think that Christ’s apostles squander their authority on stuff and nonsense. To try to reduce one’s carbon footprint implies a belief in man-made global warming, more discredited every day, and confuses as to what is faith and what opinion of the moment. To reduce pollution is another matter: Clean air, water and food are obviously true human goods. Dear Bishops, please get with it. You look foolish when you slavishly follow the world….especially the world that’s so “last month.” Please, please, dear Bishops, look at what everyone else is talking about….the great Climate-Gate U-Turn as reported in the UK Daily Mail on Feb.15.
None of the responses I read were supportive of this embarrassing effort. What a shame. They don’t realize that these overwrought green policies are like religious observances to the Gaia worshipers they’re emulating.
Environmental extremists should never be considered the allies of the Catholic Church, because as Dr Zero noted in a very poignant piece in The Greenroom, their policies have left a horrendous death toll on the populations of the world, most notably in the banning of DDT:
Those who were initiated into the higher mysteries of environmentalism saw the reduction of the human population as a benefit, although they’re generally more circumspect about saying so in public these days. As quoted by Walter Williams, the founder of the Malthusian Club of Rome, Alexander King, wrote in 1990: “My own doubts came when DDT was introduced. In Gauyana, within two years, it had almost eliminated malaria. So my chief quarrel with DDT, in hindsight, is that it has greatly added to the population problem.” Another charming quote comes from Dr. Charles Wurster, a leading opponent of DDT, who said of malaria deaths: “People are the cause of all the problems. We have too many of them. We need to get rid of some of them, and this is as good a way as any.”
Like the high priests of global warming, Rachel Carson knew what she was doing. She claimed DDT would actually destroy all life on Earth if its use continued – the “silent spring” of the title is a literal description of the apocalypse she forecast. She misused a quote from Albert Schweitzer about atomic warfare, implying the late doctor agreed with her crusade against pesticide by dedicating her book to him… when, in fact, Schweitzer viewed DDT as a “ray of hope” against disease-carrying insects. Some of the scientists attempting to debunk her hysteria went so far as to eat chunks of DDT to prove it was harmless, but she and her allies simply ignored them, making these skeptics the forerunners of today’s “global warming deniers” – absolutely correct and utterly vilified. William Ruckleshaus disregarded nine thousand pages of testimony when he imposed the DDT ban. Then as now, the science was settled… beneath a mass of politics and ideology.
60 million lives claimed by mosquito-borne malaria in Africa as a result of the ungodly politics and ideology of environmental extremists.
Happy Ash Wednesday.
Via Pewsitter.com
Hat tip: Cal Catholic
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Since Dr. Zero mentioned the founder of the Malthusian Club of Rome, who wrote: “My own doubts came when DDT was introduced.DDT was introduced. In Gauyana, within two years, it had almost eliminated malaria. So my chief quarrel with DDT, in hindsight, is that it has greatly added to the population problem”, I would be remiss if I didn’t remind readers of this previous post:
The Club Of Rome: A Major Force Behind Global Warming Alarmism And its Push For A New World Order
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Zombie notices a sure sign that Climate change alarmism is on its last legs:
Fancy carbon footwork: How Climate-Change Dance Theory spells the end of a movement
My thesis is that once any movement begins to engage in hollow, ridiculous and futile gestures (such as “dancing for” anything), it’s an indicator that the movement has run out of steam and will soon go extinct. It is therefore with great interest that I’ve been noticing not just the strange new outbreak and continuous barrage of climate change dances but more significantly an upcoming lecture being given at U.C. Berkeley entitled Mitigating Global Warming Through Art — Exploring the Importance of Music for the Change of Lifestyles.
We should invite them to Mass… these new-age moonbats would be received as reverent liturgical dancers by some of our church leaders, these days.
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