Catholic Bishops call for an end to fossil fuel use

A group of Catholic Bishops called on the world’s governments to end fossil fuel use on Wednesday, citing climate change’s threat to the global poor as the lodestar of their concern.

This, according to the BBC, is the first time senior officials in the Church from every continent have issued such a call.

A story on ClimateProgress headed: “Catholic Bishops From Every Continent Call For ‘An End To The Fossil Fuel Era’” told of the demand.

It said: “The bishops’ statement also argued that global capitalism and its economic systems, as currently designed, are incompatible with long-term ecological sustainability: “The main responsibility for this situation lies with the dominant global economic system, which is a human creation. In viewing objectively the destructive effects of a financial and economic order based on the primacy of the market and profit, which has failed to put the human being and the common good at the heart of the economy, one must recognize the systemic failures of this order and the need for a new financial and economic order.”