The Rollout of the Encyclical on the Environment | National Catholic Reporter

The Rollout of the Encyclical on the Environment | National Catholic Reporter by MSW, MGB: The fascinating fact is that for hundreds and hundreds of years, a mass extinction has been going on for a variety of reasons - from climate oscillation to industrialization.  No other species had committees and debates and propoganda regarding what was occurring.  Species adapted, migrated or died. Mostly the latter. While every species has some kind of gradation between elite members and normal members, being elite did not prevent one from dying first.  How different we truly are. We have elites that deny climate change and the mass extinction are even happening - not because they have facts, but because they have economic interests  that would harmed if they cooperated with the heard.  Indeed, they seem to thik that if much of the herd died out, they would be fine.



The encyclical will be about how our morality says that this is not the case - that making a local branch of the human herd extinct does damage the entire herd. Rich people quietly trading lower lying beach front property for something more inland while others in poorer countries could die is beyond obscene and counter-evolutionary. You see, rich people tend to marry in their class, which is a very small subset.  The masses are our genetic diversity - it is risky to let any of them die.  If you are rich, the genetic future you save may be your own. We don't need an entire species that resembes Steve Forbes - who seems to be the West Virginia of the 1%.