Faith, belief and climate change - part 2

Well, for once my timing is impeccable.  I didn't actually see the headline in yesterday's Oregonian, "Pope denounces failure to forge new climate treaty,"  when I posted yesterday, but every once in a while I get lucky.  Here is a leader of one of the world's religions saying that we need to take care of the world now so we have a world in the future.  A religious leader saying,  don't just have blind faith, take responsibility for the effects of our actions and fix the problem.  Go figure.

The whole article is interesting and just for kicks and giggles, I took a look over the mountains at what the Bend Bulletin published.  Here is the sum total:

"VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI denounced the failure of world leaders to agree to a new climate change treaty in Copenhagen last month, saying Monday that world peace depends on safeguarding God’s creation.

He issued the admonition in a speech to ambassadors accredited to the Vatican, an annual appointment during which the pontiff reflects on issues the Vatican wants to highlight to the diplomatic corps.

Benedict has been dubbed the “green pope” for his increasingly vocal concern about protect the environment."

Here is a newspaper that commonly takes government to task for falling down on the job and they're not taking an opportunity to take a potshot?  Of course having a notoriously conservative editorial board may have something to do with it or maybe they just don't care...