Trump’s stance on climate change puts him in direct opposition to the pope. #auspol
Pope Francis attends his general audience at the Vatican, November 16, 2016Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
Donald Trump’s denial of climate change has made him an adversary of environmentalists — a group that includes the world’s most revered religious leader.
In an address to a group of scientists at the Vatican this week, Pope Francis suggested science has become more important than ever.
“Never before has there been such a clear need for science to be at the service of a new global ecological equilibrium,” the pope said, adding that the goals of the scientific and Christian communities are increasingly converging around the need to protect the planet. These sentiments echoed those more elaborately described in the pope’s encyclical on the environment, which was published in June 2015.
The delegation of 80 scientists — called the Pontifical Academy of Sciences — includes physicist Stephen Hawking as well as Nobel laureates in the fields…
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We will however need to be sure we are taking care of the air. Trees and green things put oxygen into the air. That is good. It would be good if we could emulate that process. We have not been able to do that at this point in time. That would be the optimum.