Pope backs climate change mitigation

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For those that fear climate science is a religion, well, now it is. From the FT:

Pope Francis has used his first visit to the US to push for action on climate change by backing President Barack Obama’s move to impose strict controls on carbon emissions in the power sector.

“Climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to future generations,” the Pope said in an address in English to the 11,000 people gathered on the south lawn of the White House. “When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.”

Off to confession with you, Abbottalypse.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.