The Renewed Importance of Pope Francis’s Encyclical on Climate Change newyorker.com

“Laudato Si’ ” offers a clear picture of the momentous choice now confronting every government, corporation, and person on the planet in Trump’s post-Paris Agreement world.When the President met the Pope at the Vatican, last week, it was as if they were members of different species, so far apart in values and style that the actual content of what separated them proved elusive. Francis slyly presented Trump with a gift, though, that—as of yesterday—defines their opposition as absolute. The gift was a copy of his encyclical on climate change, “Laudato Si’.” Trump politely promised to read it. Sure.