Great video, Andrew!

Philipa, too bad they didn’t think about borrowing the money to build a soup kitchen or medical clinic.

Someone should let the Phanar know that even the godfather of the Global Warming movement, James Lovelock, has criticized the radical elements in the environmental movement who continue to promote climate change hysteria, falsehoods, and “sustainability drivel” while ignoring science and reality.

Lovelock admits that:
(a) he had been unduly “alarmist” about climate change and was incorrect about his doomsday predictions due to anthropogenic gas emissions,
(b) the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion,
(c) the so-called ‘sustainable development’ … is meaningless drivel … We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant.

Godfather of Global Warming Criticizes Climate Change Hysteria
http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2012/06/godfather-of-global-warming-criticizes-climate-change-hysteria/

You know it’s bad when the Ecumenical Patriarch promotes such climate change foolishness and “drivel”, while a prominent leader of the environmentalist movement represents the voice of reason and objectivity in the Climate Change debates. Stunningly, Lovelock displays greater moral clarity, wisdom, and insight into the dangers of the fanatical aspects of the Green movement — whose religious overtones and leadership works to undermine Christianity — than an Orthodox hierarch.

Here is a link to the article on-line: http://digital.turn-page.com/i/70685

The idea that man does not have dominion over the earth results in things going greatly wrong. The idea that the earth is God’s first is central to that dominion and genuine ascesis. It is never simply the exercise of our own will as the degradation of the Biblical message to many accept would have you believe. I’ll bet one could search quite awhile in the Patriarch’s speeches to find any positive reference to man’s dominion. Whenever we ago against the created hierarchy, we reap disaster for ourselves, but it sure feels good at the time–just ask Eve and Adam.

Orthopraxis is the way(which includes evangelization), but what the GP is preaching is not it. IMO, it is part of the fruit of 560 years of subjection to Islam that has bread subservience to the state as well as institutional and personal corruption. The abused almost always seeks power and contol over others and in turn abuses those he can.

The EP, WCC and others on the religious left employ the language of the European Socialist but dress it in religious garb. They live off the wealth of those they disdain for creating it.

Don’t forget that the Ecumenical Patriarch supported the Copenhagen Protocols which would have put the national economies of Europe under the control of Brussels bureaucrats. That efforts was stillborn when the East Anglia leaks revealed the corruption of global warming advocates. (See: More evidence that the EP’s global warming stance was reckless.) Thank God for a free press.

The Phanar seems to be living in a make-believe world defined by leftist ideology, socialist policies, and radical-environmentalist propaganda. Meanwhile he remains mostly silent on the issues of abortion, same-sex civil unions (can’t call it marriage since it violates the very definition of “marriage”), the pro-homosexual agenda brainwashing children and society in general, the assault on religious liberties, especially the persecution of Christians growing in Europe, Canada, and the US, the glorification of euthanasia, and the devastating consequences of moral failures and communist policies by the political class that are destroying families, bankrupting businesses, impoverishing the people, and bringing about the fiscal collapse of entire countries. He sure has his priorities “straight”!

“In the end, this conference was a conference to decide to have more conferences,” according to the AP writer who covered Rio+20.

The AP also noted:

Some of the biggest issues activists wanted to see in the document that didn’t make it in included a call to end subsidies for fossil fuels, language underscoring the reproductive rights of women, and some words on how nations might mutually agree to protect the high seas, areas that fall outside any national jurisdictions.

Did the Phanar lodge a formal objection to the “reproductive rights” push? The ENI report doesn’t say. But Russia joined with the Vatican to “eliminate any mention of ‘reproductive rights’ —- a term commonly used to refer to legal abortion—from the final report of the UN conference.”

What we do know is that the Phanar turned up in Rio with the same talking points on climate change and “unlimited growth” that it’s been using for 20 years.

Elias C. Abramides of Argentina, from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, highlighted that the WCC’s interest in international negotiations on sustainability and environment is based on bringing to the negotiation tables the principles of ethics, equity and justice, according to ENI. “This principled approach has simultaneously guided the WCC’s advocacy on climate change negotiations,” he said.

Abramides stressed that the ecumenical movement has spoken about sustainable communities and societies rather than talking about sustainable development. “The current development model includes the notion of unlimited growth, which has provoked the current ecological crisis,” he concluded.

A panel on “Climate Justice: Creation and Responsibility” was also held on June 16 in the Religions for Rights tent. Churches are advocating at the United Nations for “concrete and effective responses to the suffering of the whole creation.” The role of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in preserving the environment and addressing climate change was highlighted.

Unlimited growth? Here’s a list of 2011 GDP growth rates by nation. Guess which country comes in dead last? Yes, Greece, the nation that has suffered greatly with a contracting economy for years. Does the Phanar know that the Eurozone has been on the brink of a massive fiscal meltdown for months? Here are some significant countries in the ranking: 162, Ireland, 1.1%; 171, Spain, 0.7%; 172, Italy, 0.6%; 174, Cyprus, 0%; 185, Greece, -6%. (the U.S. on this list was ranked at 159, 1.5%).

Youth unemployment in places like Greece and Spain is hovering around 50 percent (no economic growth, no job creation). Young people are desperate to get out of these countries where their future is bleak. In Greece, people are standing in breadlines. And the Greek statistical agency is forecasting a 6 percent GDP contraction again this year. Tourism is down 12 percent.

Some 30 percent of Greeks, a proud people, are now living below the poverty line.

And the Phanar shows up in Rio to deliver lectures about “unlimited growth”?

Nick, how sad is it that outreach and evangelism is only 0.9% of the total operating budget for the entire Archdiocese. Philanthropy is indeed ZERO. Way to go 79th Street! Omogenia before Orthodoxy!