Cardinal Turkson demands binding global pacts on hunger, climate change
September 14, 2015
The president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace has said that world leaders risk becoming “accomplices of global injustice” if they fail to take action to remedy economic inequalities.
Speaking at the Expo 2015 gather in Milan, which is devoted to questions of food production and distribution, Cardinal Peter Turkson said that the enduring problem of hunger represents a moral failure. “The world claims it is committed to the fight against hunger and poverty but it is actually in conflict with the poor and the hungry,” he charged. “The war against the poor is in fact often the result of development policies.”
Cardinal Turkson said that the two most important events on the horizon are the UN’s discussion of sustainable-development goals and the Paris conference on climate change. He called for “a truly binding global agreement” on both issues, saying that the time for rhetorical agreements is past.
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Sep. 19, 2015 5:58 AM ET USA
Nuclear-powered desalination plants and tropical rainfall can provide the water. Global food suppliers can provide the crop seeds. Allowing the rain forests to return to their natural functioning will sink the CO2 and increase oxygen production. Replace drug harvesting with food harvesting. And so on. There are dozens of productive steps that can be taken towards conservationism. I don't know if any of these market solutions are under consideration by Turkson and the U.N., but they should be.
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Posted by: jalsardl5053 -
Sep. 15, 2015 1:16 AM ET USA
Dear Cardinal Peter Turkson: check out how the "leaders" of impoverished nations handle food donations; next, check out yet another scientific wonder that is debunked: GMO wheat that sits piled on wharves because people are intimidated to eat it. Then check out NOAA's lies on temperature measurements.
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Posted by: aclune9083 -
Sep. 14, 2015 8:33 PM ET USA
Cardinal Turkson is way out of his league. The binding pact he refers to in regard to anthropogenic global warming is based on political ideology, denies scientific truth and will have calamitous results for all, and particularly the 1 billion people most impoverished on the planet.
