Apparently the recently deceased Pope Francis is the patron saint of “Mother Earth.” At least that’s what the climate Armageddon-obsessed TIME magazine is trying to argue.
TIME senior correspondent and eco-doom prophet Justin Worland’s papal obit read like a cheap comic strip: “The Climate Pope: Francis and His Environmental Legacy,” Worland’s headline read, celebrating the leftist pope for his radical eco crusaderism. According to Worland’s twisted worldview, the first big “environmental move” the pope did upon ascending to the papacy was simply “choosing the papal name Francis after Saint Francis of Assi, known among other things for his appreciation of the natural world which he called a ‘mirror of God.’”
Um, you’d be hard-pressed to convince the Catholic faithful writ large that St. Francis of Assisi was somehow a raving climate activist nut like their “Person of the Year” Greta Thunberg. But in Worland’s perspective, as he bleated in 2021, “climate is everything.”
This is also the same Worland who screeched like a cat with its tail stepped on nearly five years ago that 2020 was “our one last chance” to save the planet. So it’s not a surprise he’s exploiting the death of a pope to embellish his ridiculous climate change bona fides. “In his 12 year papacy, Pope Francis would go on to become a key figure in the global climate movement,” Worland plastered onto his latest climate babble.
He went on to offer a Malthusian salute to Pope Francis for his supposed condemnation of humanity for its stain on the earth’s climate:
As political leaders debated the technical and economic dimensions of the climate policy agenda, Francis, who passed away on Easter Monday, served as a voice of moral clarity, speaking and writing about the social consequences of human influence on the planet.
Worland specifically highlighted the pope’s Greenpeace-pleasing encyclical Laudato Si from 2015, “Francis paid special attention to the disproportionate impact of climate change on the world’s poorest and critiqued the economic structures that make this a reality.”
Sheesh, Worland. Just call Francis your favorite anti-capitalist and be done with it.
