Pope Francis may be right. Maybe humans are turning the world into an "immense pile of filth". Read an excerpt from an English parliament report calling for immediate legislative action to mitigate pollution in England's streams and rivers:
"That the increasing pollution of the rivers and streams of the country is an evil of national importance which urgently demands the application of remedial measures; that the discharge of sewage and the noxious refuse of factories into them is a source of nuisance and danger to health; that it acts injuriously not only on the locality where it occurs, but on the populations of the districts through which the polluted waters flow; that it poisons the water which in many cases forms the sole supply of the populations for all purposes, including drinking; and that it destroys the fish."
The above excerpt is from a report titled On the Pollution of the Rivers of the Kingdom; the Enormous Magnitude of the Evil...
Judging by the report, Pope Francis should have written in his encyclical that humans are turning our sister, the earth, into an immense pile of filth lying in an ocean of immense filth. He should have had the report not been written in 1868.
In the 19th century, the Thames river was the most polluted river in the world. It was an open sewer that bred cholera and killed both fish and birds. In 1858, a summer heat wave (obviously caused by manmade CO2 emissions from SUVs) helped create an event called the Great Stink. The stench coming from the Thames river became so intense that the curtains of Parliament were dipped in chloride and lime in an attempt to filter out the odors. (http://www.choleraandthethames.co.uk/cholera-in-london/the-great-stink/)
In the cartoon below, "Father Thames" is introducing his children, Cholera, Diphtheria, and Scrofula (tuberculosis of the neck) to "Lady London".
Fortunately today, the Thames river is much, much less polluted even though the population of London is now over 8 million. In 1858, it was less than 3 million.
Today, we have another Great Stink. The stench, this time, isn't coming from the Thames river but from progressives in government, science, education and even religious institutions. The stench is composed of lies, dissembling, propaganda, leftist lawlessness, bureaucratic regulations, executive orders, UN mandates and the like.
The Left, to include Pope Francis, think humankind can remake the Garden of Eden if we stop partaking of the "forbidden fruit". For the Left, the forbidden fruit is fossil fuel - coal, oil, and natural gas.
For me, fossil fuels are the exact opposite of a forbidden fruit. They are a gift from God, fully intended to be used for the betterment of Mankind. It is surely a miracle that an abundant source of energy is right under our feet and whether humans use this energy source, it is still going to leach into the oceans and, for the Left, be an "immense cancer" in the tissues of our sister.
I ask the Pope, "Shouldn't we remove this cancer from our sister?"
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