Analysis Is the encyclical a measured document?
June 18, 2015
originally published in
National Review
From National Review:
Josiah Neeley has a very nice piece at First Things making the case that the Pope’s environmental encyclical is really “a more measured affair” than the advanced notices suggest. I’m afraid this isn’t right. Putting aside the anti-development tone and content of much of it, which I take it may be par for the course in these documents, the encyclical goes beyond the science to embrace a fashionable alarmism on climate...
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