Pope Francis gestures as he talks with journalists during his flight from Manila to Rome on Jan. 19. (Giuseppe Cacace, AP, pool)
RE: Pope’s climate-change stand deepens conservatives’ distrust
Somebody pinch me. I grew up a Catholic, and never thought I would read words like “Pope’s climate-change stand deepens conservatives’ distrust,” per the headline on your Jan. 20 news story.
Who’s running the show here? It’s bad enough that so many of our politicians are required to beg permission from Rush Limbaugh and The Heritage Foundation before speaking, but now the pope, too? Should he also be clearing his encyclicals with K Street lobbyists? How long before we start hearing calls for his birth certificate?
Can we please grow up? Global warming is real; it’s caused by burning fossil fuels; and there is a simple, transparent, conservative solution. Put a rising fee on carbon at the point of extraction or port of entry, and then divide all the money equally among legal adult residents. Then let the market decide how to respond.
Rick Knight,Brookfield, Ill.
This letter was published in the Jan. 26 edition.
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