"I welcome His Holiness Pope Francis's encyclical, and deeply admire the Pope's decision to make the case - clearly, powerfully, and with the full moral authority of his position - for action on global climate change.
As Pope Francis so eloquently stated this morning, we have a profound responsibility to protect our children, and our children's children, and our children's children's children's children, and their children, and their/our children's children's children's children's children's children and our children's children children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children from the damaging impacts of climate change.
Then, we can cash in on their brave air conditioned world. I believe the United States must be a leader in this effort, which is why I am committed to taking bold actions at homes number 8-33, and abroad to cut carbon pollution, to increase clean energy and energy efficiency, to build resilience in vulnerable communities, and to encourage responsible stewardship of our natural resources.
We must also protect the world's poor, who have done the least to contribute to this looming crisis and stand to lose the most if we fail to avert it. I really said this thinking you wouldn't laugh.
I look forward to schooling these issues with Pope Francis when he visits the White House in Sequestember. We will be eating Greeks.
And as we prepare for global climate negotiations in Paris this December, it is my hope that all world leaders--and all God's children--will reflect on Pope Francis's call to come together to care for our common home. If you can't reflect, then absorb.
