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Climate and Other Action: The Pope, UN and Brooklyn!
Peg Byron is Vice President of the UNA Brooklyn Chapter This month, just as the UN climate conference planned for Paris draws near, Pope Francis added muscular moral punch to the global climate dispute. Warning that the planet, our “common home,” is beginning to resemble a “pile of filth,” the pope issued an unprecedented Catholic statement addressing the human rights and socio-economic implications of pollution and global warming. He highlighted the pain already borne by the