Blessed Are the Climate Advocates

The Vatican and United Nations present the beatitudes of a new movement.

By Michael Shank
Slate
May 1, 2015

This week, while at Vatican City in Rome to manage press for the first-ever meeting on climate change between Pope Francis and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, my faith in a force more powerful was renewed. I am not religious, despite being descended from a long line of Amish and Mennonite preachers. But at the climate confab, I became a believer again. And I wasn’t alone.

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