Encyclical On Climate Change And Inequality: On Care for Our Common Home

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With an exclusive introduction by the acclaimed Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes, this is the complete text of the landmark encyclical letter by Pope Francis that has 'rocked the international community' (Time). The only secular edition of the Pope's remarks, the Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality is an essential document of our times - as significant a contribution to the movement for environmental justice and human rights as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was 55 years ago.

"Pope Francis has been the Pope of the Catholic Church since March 13, 2013. Born in Buenos Aires in 1936, he was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1969. He became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. Devoted to rectifying social injustices and economic inequality, Pope Francis has said that he would like to see a church that is poor and is for the poor. "

Praise for the Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality "An urgent call to action." -The New York Times "This breathtaking amalgam of urgency and poetry mines the spirit and appeals to the moral core... That a secular publisher, Melville House, chose to print in its entirety the papal document...bespeaks its relevance beyond the walls of the Roman Catholic Church." -Chicago Tribune "The most astonishing and perhaps the most ambitious papal document of the past 100 years." -The Guardian "A powerful, prophetic, and personal plea for governments, religions, businesses and individuals to work together to address climate change." -Time "The pope's clarion call adds an ethical dimension to a debate too often bogged down in warring statistics and economic arguments . . . His powerful message on climate change should have the skeptics and deniers, who've stood in the way of meaningful action, squirming in their seats and feeling the heat." -USA Today "The letter isn't just a manifesto for clergy and bishops, but doubles as a call to action with scientific rational, written in plain language and addressed to 'every person living on this planet.'" -Chicago Tribune "In his masterful grasp of the science behind climate change, the pontiff unmasks himself as a policy wonk." -The Washington Post "A bold act by the pope, the encyclical in many ways reflects a movement that has been growing for decades." -Los Angeles Times