Pope for Environment

May 15, 2015

Religious Shareholders at the Climate-Change Dance

It’s prom season, the time of year when plenty of high school kids eagerly anticipate an invitation to the year’s biggest formal event. It’s no different for the member organizations of religious shareholder activist groups As You Sow and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. Continue Reading...

April 21, 2015

Can Human Ecology Harm Humans?

That’s one of the questions that comes to mind when reading Bill McGurn’s op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal. Many free-market advocates, including yours truly, have already expressed concern over what may appear in the papal encyclical due this summer. Continue Reading...

April 18, 2015

Gregg, Jayabalan on Pope Francis’ Environmental Encyclical

On Naharnet, a Lebanese news and information site, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg and Director of Istituto Acton Kishore Jayabalan comment on Pope Francis’s forthcoming environmental encyclical, which the news organization says is planned for release this summer. Continue Reading...

April 08, 2015

Dangerous Nonsense from Climate Change Activists

No sooner had your writer reported on the metastasis of the sustainability movement from universities to the religious community than it came to his attention that activists were doubling down on efforts to bankrupt the economy and sentence capitalism to the dustbin of history. Continue Reading...

April 07, 2015

Sustainability and Anarchy

The fossil-fuel sustainability and divestment movements began with colleges and universities. Over the past two years, the movements have gained momentum from faith-based activists intent on stranding oil, coal and natural gas in the ground. Continue Reading...

March 30, 2015

Fossil Fuels: The Best Hope for the World’s Poor

Writing for The Federalist blog last week, American Energy Alliance Vice President of Strategic Initiatives Dan Ziegler remarked: The environment isn’t getting worse—it’s rapidly improving, even as our economy grows and our energy use increases. Continue Reading...

March 10, 2015

Religious Left Preps ‘Grassroots’ Strategy for Pope Francis’ Environmental Encyclical

If I were to publicly announce a Bible study meeting at the local public library, one can imagine the hue and cry from secularists fretting about a looming right-wing theocratic takeover of America. Continue Reading...

September 19, 2014

The FAQs: The World’s Deadliest Environmental Problem

What is the world’s deadliest environmental problem? Household air pollution. According to the World Health Organization’s latest report air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk, and the main cause is entirely preventable: Around 3 billion people still cook and heat their homes using solid fuels (i.e. Continue Reading...

August 15, 2014

Do Leaders of the Religious Left Really Care About Climate Change?

A few weeks ago I wrote about how some leaders of the religious left were supporting the EPA’s proposed new regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired electric generating units. Continue Reading...

May 29, 2014

Interview: Fr. Michael Butler on Environmentalism and Orthodox Christianity

Kevin Allen, host of a weekly call-in show on Ancient Faith Radio, interviewed Fr. Michael Butler over the weekend “about how we might address the environmental issues that confront us today by appealing to the authentic Orthodox Tradition.” Continue Reading...

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