By: Robert Letcher

Robert Letcher
Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:50:44 +0000

I write as a person who first worked on matters related to climate change back in the late-1970s, about 35 years ago. Ii am neither Catholic nor Christian--not even theist. After reading the Encyclical in its entirety, I wondered whether the Pope was simply dissing me and the work that I and many others like me had done might matter to he Pipe-as-organizer. Hen, during Pope Francis' address from the American capital, he modified his message by mentioning ... "those who do not or cannot pray" (like me)--and asking us to send good thoughts his way. It seems to me that we must all work together if Francis's is to become in practice the integral ecology he wrote of. If I could end with a twist from his Book: By their actions you will know them. We must all work together without wasting time arguing who is #1!