Old overdressed man who lives in a palace discovers how to cure global warming

Pope Benedict 16* has found the fix for global warming**. Can you guess what it is?


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The solution is Jesus! If you guessed correctly, give yourself a pat on the back.

Experiencing the shared responsibility for creation (Cf. 51), the Church is not only committed to the promotion of the defense of the earth, of water and of air, given by the Creator to everyone, but above all is committed to protect man from the destruction of himself. In fact, "when 'human ecology' is respected in society, environmental ecology also benefits" (ibid). Is it not true that inconsiderate use of creation begins where God is marginalized or also where is existence is denied? If the human creature's relationship with the Creator weakens, matter is reduced to egoistic possession, man becomes the "final authority," and the objective of existence is reduced to a feverish race to possess the most possible.

So if we all accept Jesus the Christ as our personal LORD and savior, we would magically use natural resources more carefully? We wouldn't do the opposite?

We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand

It would appear that James Watt, a fundamentalist Christian and Reagan's Secretary of the Interior would disagree.

Religious disagreements aside, this is simply another instance of the meme that one can't be good without god. Not surprising to hear it coming from the pope. He seems to really like it. Still an annoying, bothersome, dangerous idea though.

*Roman numerals are a tool of the feudalistic oppressors.

**In the interest of full disclosure, his speech never mentions the phrases "global warming" or "climate change", but talking about protecting the environment of course includes combating global warming. I could've replaced "global warming" in my post title with "damages to the environment and ecology", but I figured the title was long enough.