Amy Goodman
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Pope Francis Calls for Action on Climate Change & Capitalism as Planet "Exploited by Human Greed"
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13:22Now PlayingPope Francis is set to make history by issuing the firstever comprehensive Vatican teachings on climate change, which will urge 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide to take action. The document will be sent to the world's 5,000 Catholic bishops and 400,000 priests who will distribute it to their parishioners. Given the sheer number of people who identify as Catholics worldwide, the pope's clarion call to tackle climate change could reach far more people than even the largest environmental groups. "The document will take a position in favor of the scientific consensus that climate change is real ... and link the deforestation and destruction of the natural environment to the particular economic model of which Pope Francis has been a critic," says our guest, Austen Ivereigh, author of a new biography called "The Great ReformerFrancis and the Making of a Radical Pope." The pope also plans to address the United Nations General Assembly and convene a summit of the world's main religions in hopes of bolstering next year's crucial U.N. climate meeting in Paris.
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