Professor Michael Pakaluk asks:
How should a Catholic view President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord? Was it a “slap in the face” to the Vatican, as Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo claimed? After all, Pope Francis had timed the publication of his encyclical, “Laudato Si’, “On the Care for our Common Home,” so that it would appear in time for the Paris meeting, to support that accord.
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So here is the question: Might a layperson who accepted those general principles, and even the authority of the “scientific consensus” as well, think it a good idea for the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris accord?