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Pope's messy climate change view

News, Cass Sunstein, Published on 23/09/2015

» This week, Pope Francis is expected to implore both the US Congress and the UN General Assembly to take aggressive steps to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. His thinking on this issue is not simple alarm over climate change. It involves an extraordinary combination of passionate environmentalism, concern for the poor, scepticism about economics and apparent hostility to "profits". All this makes for an impressive but occasionally awkward argument.