{"id":22965,"date":"2015-07-03T20:13:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T00:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22965"},"modified":"2015-07-04T20:13:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T00:13:54","slug":"more-uses-and-abuses-of-laudato-si","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22965\/more-uses-and-abuses-of-laudato-si\/","title":{"rendered":"More Uses and Abuses of Laudato Si&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/44-energy-and-environment\/2655-how-climate-alarmists-and-some-skeptics-misuse-and-abuse-pope-francis\" target=\"_blank\">last week\u2019s column<\/a> about Pope Francis\u2019s encyclical on the environment and creation, I pointed out some of the ways climate change alarmists have appropriated the pontiff\u2019s language to advance agendas quite different from that of the Catholic Church. (Population control? <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/06\/17\/pro-lifers-pope-rejects-population-control-abortion-as-solutions-to-global-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seriously?<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Well, the hits just keep on coming. Actor\/activist Robert Redford on Sunday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/06\/28\/opinions\/redford-climate-change\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">cited<\/a> Pope Francis in his case for doing something \u2014 <em>anything <\/em>\u2014 to address the threat of climate change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Pope Francis has told us, we have a moral obligation to be responsible stewards of the earth and all it supports,\u201d Redford wrote, which is true as far as it goes. \u201cThat means protecting future generations from the dangers of climate change.\u201d Well, maybe.<\/p>\n<p>But what does Redford have in mind exactly? On that point \u2014 and as with so many others who share his point of view \u2014 he\u2019s maddeningly vague. \u201cOur best business minds grasp the historic opportunity for us to lead the world in the clean energy economy of tomorrow,\u201d he writes. \u201cAnd a new American generation understands the urgency of acting now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He may be referring to the U.N.\u2019s stated desire to \u201cdecarbonize the economy\u201d by the end of the century. Or he might be talking about covering the country with solar panels and windmills. Whatever it is that he means, it won\u2019t be cheap and it will require plenty of coercion.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one thing to point out how greens lean on the Pope\u2019s encyclical for their pet causes, but in fairness, Francis hasn\u2019t made himself easy to defend. The Pope\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruxnow.com\/church\/2015\/07\/01\/pope-francis-expands-climate-team-with-addition-of-naomi-klein-secular-jewish-feminist\/\">latest choice in climate change advisors<\/a> is enough to send the most devout Catholic or free market devotee into the slough of despond. As I mentioned in the column, Francis is hardly a friend of capitalism. But he looks like Milton Friedman compared to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2014\/09\/full-frontal-environmentalism-we-knew-it-all-along.php\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Klein<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In last week\u2019s column about Pope Francis\u2019s encyclical on the environment and creation, I pointed out some of the ways climate change alarmists have appropriated the pontiff\u2019s language to advance agendas quite different from that of the Catholic Church. (Population control? Seriously?) Well, the hits just keep on coming. Actor\/activist Robert Redford on Sunday cited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,196,205,4709],"class_list":["post-22965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-global-warming","tag-pope-francis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22967,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22965\/revisions\/22967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}