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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPope Francis recruits Naomi Klein in climate change battle
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/28/pope-climate-change-naomi-kleinPope Francis recruits Naomi Klein in climate change battle
Social activist surprised but delighted to join top cardinal in high-level environment conference at the Vatican
Rosie Scammell
Saturday 27 June 2015 19.11 EDT
She is one of the worlds most high-profile social activists and a ferocious critic of 21st-century capitalism. He is one of the popes most senior aides and a professor of climate change economics. But this week the secular radical will join forces with the Catholic cardinal in the latest move by Pope Francis to shift the debate on global warming.
Naomi Klein and Cardinal Peter Turkson are to lead a high-level conference on the environment, bringing together churchmen, scientists and activists to debate climate change action. Klein, who campaigns for an overhaul of the global financial system to tackle climate change, told the Observer she was surprised but delighted to receive the invitation from Turksons office.
The fact that they invited me indicates theyre not backing down from the fight. A lot of people have patted the pope on the head, but said hes wrong on the economics. I think hes right on the economics, she said, referring to Pope Franciss recent publication of an encyclical on the environment.
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The pope will fly into New York on the first day of the meeting and address the UN general assembly, reinforcing his message and emboldening countries worst affected by climate change.
For Klein, the papal visit will mark a much-needed change in the way negotiators discuss the environment. Theres a way in which UN discourse sanitises the extent to which this is a moral crisis, she said. It cries out for a moral voice.
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Pope Francis recruits Naomi Klein in climate change battle (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2015
OP
He could do better. She missed the most important piece of the puzzle in her book on the subject.
Gregorian
Jun 2015
#3
Wow, a nice Jewish girl working with the pope, what will happen next? same sex marriage?
still_one
Jun 2015
#5
Dustlawyer
(10,510 posts)1. The most important issue of our time!
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)2. Long Popegasm already posted here:
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)3. He could do better. She missed the most important piece of the puzzle in her book on the subject.
sjk.fly4ever
(11 posts)4. Pope Francis recruits Naomi Klein in climate change battle
Pope Francis is the guy!!!
Stephan.
still_one
(94,850 posts)5. Wow, a nice Jewish girl working with the pope, what will happen next? same sex marriage?
starroute
(12,977 posts)6. The Catholic Church wouldn't have existed without Jewish radicals
still_one
(94,850 posts)7. of course, though my post was more directed at levity, and nothing in any metaphysical sense