Gov. Jerry Brown challenged the world’s religious leaders to further engage as he minimized the negative effects of President Donald Trump on meeting the climate-change challenge.
“The Trump factor is very small, very small indeed,” in comparison to the commitments taking place around the world, Brown said to a burst of applause Saturday at an event organized by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences. “That’s nothing to cheer about, because if it was only Trump that was a problem, we’d have it solved. But that’s not our only problem.
“The problem … is us. It’s our whole way of life. It’s our comfort … It’s the greed. It’s the indulgence. It’s the pattern. And it’s the inertia.”
Brown’s first brush with the concept of transformation came when he entered the Jesuit seminary in the 1950s before the Second Vatican Council. He spoke Latin, meditated, underwent self-discipline, mortified himself.
“We tried real hard, and I can tell I did not achieve perfection. I was not transformed. In fact some of my bad habits, which I will not reveal, are the same as they were … when I came into Jesuit seminary when Pius XII was pope.”
Brown acknowledged that achieving transformation will not be easy, citing his recent visit to the Eastern Economic Forum in Russia, where world leaders gathered for discussions about trade with scant mention of climate effects.
“At the highest circles, people still don’t get it,” he said. “It’s not just a light rinse” that’s required. “We need a total, I might say ‘brain washing.’
“We need to wash our brains out and see a very different kind of world.”
Full story at The Sacramento Bee.
“We need a total, I might say ‘brain washing.’
Liberal nut jobs like “Moonbeam” Jerry Brown cannot control their tongues in giving their intentions away. He and others of his ilk would love to be able to brain wash us into going along with the global climate change agenda. Just follow the money trail and see who benefits monetarily from this.
Brown made a very bad choice of words that is going to come back to haunt all in the Green movement. “Brain washing” has no association with clarification or repentence, but with agrgressive state-imposed propaganda – of the sort of which the meaner Greenies have long been accused.
Are there mirrors in the governor’s house? They’ll tell him whose brain needs washing.
HC dismissed Trump too…but he’s right about one thing. The hypocrisy of the global (warming) elites is pretty breathtaking. Calling for “responsible” family size while having a carbon footprint that dwarfs that of a Kenyan farmers’s family of 10. They also seem to target things like air conditioning and combustion engines that raise the standard of living for billions around the world.
You forgot “flatulent cows”;
https://nypost.com/2016/09/21/it-will-soon-be-illegal-for-cows-to-fart-in-california/
Brainwashing? wrong choice of words, or was it a Freudian slip? Now they will will need a veggie ban on beans and cabbage, and no more jet fuel for them. Some need to “get down to earth”. (Pun intended.)
By the way, I am for clean water and air and conservation within reason. I was brought up with the “waste not want not” philosophy, but the elites need to practice what they preach. too.
Please do not forget that Global Warming is a hoax. Pity that our Church under Pope Francis promotes this lie. Above else do not believe Jesuit Jerry anything except that he is in favor of euthanasia and abortion. Now we can see why we had never had a Jesuit Pope before.
Gratias, I doubt your comment about Global Warming being a hoax. I think it is real. But, as in all cases, without data were just two people with an opinion. Is there verifiable -peer reviewed etc. – that shows that the warming is a hoax. Most of the arguments I’ve read don’t debate the warming issue, or that it occurs in cycles. The arguments are about how much, if any, human activity is hastening the change. I mean, we have verifiable evidence that the world has warmed a couple of degrees in the last 100 years or so, that the ozone layer is in trouble, etc. How is that a hoax. We need to talk real science, not opinion, don’t you think?
Bob One I doubt your belief that global warming is real, OK? you and the rest of Left have turned the Church into another leftist NGO with diabolical goals. The fact is Bob One, we belong to 2 different Church’s yours worships earth and man mine worships the Holy Trinity
I don’t know why the left keeps pushing climate change when the more immediate reality is more threatening and likely to lead to the same policies they want. I’m worried about the air pollution of China that causes lung cancer in children. I’m worried about the water pollution of India that causes many illnesses. Forget climate change, these are the pressing issues of our time.
Climate change IS a pressing issue of our time. Some national security experts think it will soon become the number one security threat to the world, as climate becomes more and more extreme and countries fight over water and lowlands flood. I’m glad that you are concerned about things like air and water pollution – and thanks for raising those issues, but climate change is not a passing thing and cannot be ignored. https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
YFC tows the leftist line no matter, hey genius you cannot control the weather, the arrogance of the Left knows no border……..some national security experts swore there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, then again you are a leftist..if its from the government it must be true
It has nothing at all to do with whether one occupies a political position on the left or the right. Look at the link, look at the data yourself. It is not hard to understand. When you say “hey genius you cannot control the weather”, you are like a child caught who covers his eyes and claims to know nothing. Open your eyes. Every country in the world has signed the Paris accord. Now genius Trump has pulled out.
Of course there is climate change. There always has been. During the period of the dinosaurs it was hotter, then came the ice age and killed them off. Then it got hotter again, so what caused all that — no fossil fuel, very few people — what caused it all is the question. Can it now be all the atomic bombs and energy being set off? There seems to be a thousand different questions and answers.
There aren’t a thousand questions and answers, Anne. The climate was warmer when carbon dioxide was more plentiful – sure – such as the ages of our earth when there was more volcanic activity. More Carbon meant more heat. But as volcanic activity subsided, so did both carbon levels and the heat in the atmosphere and seas. But our levels of carbon dioxide are higher than at any time during the history of humankind. So is the heat. There aren’t any sources of excess carbon that can’t be traced to our burning of carbon-based energy sources. And all that happened suddenly since the industrial revolution.
Since when does Gov Moonbeam speak for the United States?
What has happened to Mother Church? Ideology and partisanship are the new Gospel. Why is Mother Church so politicized these days? Where is Christ the Shepherd?
Gov “Moonbeam” has indeed been brainwashed!!!
Several years ago, a local priest said from the pulpit that “Climate Change-Global Warming was a great HOAX”…..and he is so right.
OK, I get it: “A local priest” is a more reliable source of global information than the Catholic Pope.
And what a gathering it was. All booted and spurred to ride mankind.
I’ll wager Gov. Brown, Rep. Peters and assorted watermelons weren’t travelling coach.
A one-time brain washing would be merciful compared to our interminable exposure to Brown’s Blather, Rinse, Repeat.
There is a clear DIFFERENCE between polluting the surface of the planet and CLIMATE CHANGE, which is caused by huge planetary forces man can not control. However, the ANGELS OF THE MIDDLE SET BELOW the choirs of the highest who stay with God, and the lowest, who attend to mankind DO HAVE CONTROL, AT GOD’S BIDDING OF EFFECTING THE PLANETARY LAWS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
The fact is that the earth AXIS IS ABNORMALLY OFF KILTER, causing exposure of fresh water ice rapidly to melt, volcanos to erupt, earthquakes over 9 to occur that caused the 2004 tsunami to wipe out some 230 K people, as well as the one at Fukashima. The climate is caused by the SUN, recently proven by 2 Scandinavian and one Israeli scientists. ALL the other planets in our…
I do believe Sr. Lucia mentioned that the earth’s axis was off kilter and wrote a book about the reason and the effects.
I don’t see any books written by Sister Lucia other than In Her Own Words and Calls From the Messages of Fatima. I see a reference to the earth’s axis on SpiritDaily and a book written by the sisters of the monastery she lived in called A Pathway Under the Gaze of Mary. I think this might be what you are thinking of. But it is a biography of Sister Lucia using mostly her published and unpublished writings.