George Monbiot appears greatly excited that the Pope will be apparently appealing, in an encyclical, for people to consider in intrinsic value of the Earth and its nature rather than to simply warn of the financial perils linked to climate change (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/16/pope-encyclical-value-of-living-world). This is helpful, even if it is a fall back to the idea of some faiths that humans should be the guardians of 'creation'. The only proviso I would add is that population growth appears to be a major driver of climate change and I see little evidence that his views on human reproduction are substantially changing?
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