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Pope’s climate letter is a radical attack on the logic of the market

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image_Sic transit gloria mundi_ ... and down with neoliberalism.Alessandro Di Meo / EPA

What makes Pope Francis and his 187-page encyclical so radical isn’t just his call to urgently tackle climate change. It’s the fact he openly and unashamedly goes against the grain of dominant social, economic and environment policies.

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