Pope Declares a 'Right of the Environment' at U.N.

[SpankMe]

Source: NBCNews.com

Pope Francis declared before the United Nations on Friday that there is a fundamental "right of the environment" and that mankind has no authority to abuse it, much less destroy it.

At the General Assembly, the largest gathering of dignitaries in the world, Francis said that the environment is a "fundamental good" in all religions, and that a "selfish and boundless thirst" for power and wealth harms the planet and the weakest among people.



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I'm sure this is going over really well with the right-wing nut-fucks.

[riversedge]

1. Thank you Pope Fransis

I am listening on cnn.... Lots of time devoted to the environment.


Crap on the gop-teabaggers

......I'm sure this is going over really well with the right-wing nut-fucks.............

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Pope Francis is a HEAVY HITTER

Such profound common sense

Where will the Darwinist survival-of-the-fittest cutthroat competition
laissez-faire free markets hide?

[jtuck004]

3. Will it motivate a significant change, or just more people patting themselves on the back

for recognizing a problem? We'll see in a couple of years.

[wordpix]

4. hurray! I've agreed since 1974 when

I moved to the Pacific NW and witnessed the destruction of our old growth national forests. Glad the Pope is with us on this.

[Gregorian]

7. Not many of us have seen it. It changed my life when seeing it.

I have wanted to have an exchange with anyone who has witnessed it. Although it really amounts to a personal thing now. My backyard was just logged, and I thought it was off limits. From beauty to trashed.

What people don't get, and I hope the pope addresses this, is that it's personal behavior. Not only is lumber criminally cheap, but people don't realize that when they use lumber, they're actually taking a forest apart.

[november3rd]

5. I hope Fox News

Conveys this message clearly and repeatedly to its listeners.

[Sunlei]

6. He said, humanity is part of the environment. We need it to survive.

When we damage the environment we damage us.

[WillyT]

8. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[tex-wyo-dem]

9. Thank you Pope Francis!

The most important issue facing humanity...period

Saving the environment is a moral issue. Every person and every other living thing on this planet depends on it.

We need to start living in harmony with our Mother Earth rather than exploiting her for our own greed.

[Dont call me Shirley]

10. Pope Francis...

[bucolic_frolic]

11. This calls for

a Constitutional Amendment

just so the GOP can vote it down and harp on it

PBO, is your executive order pen ready?