The pope’s encyclical Laudato Si’ tells us to protect nature and act on climate change for more than reasons of self interest.
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The pope’s encyclical challenges the belief in markets to solve social ills – a difficult message for Catholic Republican presidential candidates to accept.
By equating human rights to the protection of nature, the pope’s encyclical opens up an international debate with broad political implications.
For people who take the Bible seriously – not only Catholics – the pope’s encyclical on climate change and the environment will change minds.
The pope’s encyclical turns climate change into a moral discussion by focusing on the disproportionate impact of climate change on poor countries and regions.
Freddie Gray had high levels of lead as a child, one of the environmental injustices suffered by poor and minority groups.
The EPA and other federal agencies have yet to address environmental justice – despite a long history of poor and minority communities suffering environmental ills disproportionately.
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Lynton K. Caldwell Professor, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Sociology; Co-Founder, Center for Environmental Justice at CSU, Colorado State University
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Adjunct Lecturer in Urban Studies, The New School
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Professor of Geography and Environmental Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management & School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Health, University of Washington
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Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor, Honorary Principal Fellow, Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-), University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Chancellor's Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor of Applied Environmental Health , University of Maryland
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management, The New School
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York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, Anthropology & Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island
