Pope Francis blamed the rich and powerful for placing the planet in danger “unprecedented in the history of humanity” as he demanded urgent and concerted global action against climate change. 

The Earth is rapidly being turned into “an immense pile of filth” by unbridled human greed, he warns in a blistering critique of the “sin” of environmental destruction. 

In a landmark papal encyclical – addressed to “every person living on this planet” – he said there is now a “solid scientific consensus” that mankind is at least mostly responsible for global warming. 

The document, which now becomes part of the teaching the Roman Catholic Church, demands the phasing out of fossil fuels, including oil, and urges the world to find a way to pay for the transition, with the rich rather than the poor shouldering the burden.  UK Telegraph

The problem is spiritual, NOT environmental.