China, Russia: His Holiness Has His Eye On You

So, remember that series of comments the Pope made about the environment & the MSM swooned and said, see the Pope's against global warming & I said no, he's not jumping on a bandwagon, he's correcting its course? Check this out in his message for the World Day of Peace. As is his wont, he suggests we leave the truth of the matter to the experts --but experts providing solid evidence, not experts currying favor in the court of world opinion:

Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances.

If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of development of various countries and the need for solidarity with future generations. Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken, decisions aimed at strengthening that covenant between human beings and the environment, which should mirror the creative love of God, from whom we come and towards whom we are journeying.

In other words, it's not "climate-change denying" to pause a bit and think about what we really know and ought to do. Nor is it acceptable to freeze the developing world out of economic progress in the name of saving the earth. And how about this?

The emerging counties are hungry for energy, but at times this hunger is met in a way harmful to poor countries which, due to their insufficient infrastructures, including their technological infrastructures, are forced to undersell the energy resources they do possess. At times, their very political freedom is compromised by forms of protectorate or, in any case, by forms of conditioning which appear clearly humiliating.

Hmm. Which 2nd world countries are raping Africa?

Of course, everything he says on these and other specific matters is in the context of a defense of the family and what he calls "the natural moral norm" --I guess the Vatican translators have learned that you can't use the phrase "natural law" in the West anymore.