Paul Brown: ...and then he got fired

By Paul Brown, Huffington Post

Two Christian religious leaders combined yesterday to warn that time was running out for the life of the planet.

Pope Benedict XVI was supporting the "green" Patriarch Bartholomew 1, leader of 300 million of the world's orthodox Christians at the opening of eighth Religion, Science and Environment Symposium, in New Orleans. The symposium is concentrating on the fate of the Mississippi and its delta.

The Patriarch was most direct "We have expanded our dominion over nature to the point where absolute limits to our survival are being reached."

"We are consuming environmental capital and destroying its sources as if there is no tomorrow"

The Pope delivered his message via the Archbishop of New Orleans Gregory Aymond. He said "Concern for the fate of the great rivers of our earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing."

The solution to the ecological crisis of our time necessarily calls for a change of heart on the part of our contemporaries.

The idea of gathering scientists, theologians and ecologists together in a symposium ahead of the climate talks in Copenhagen in three weeks is to urge politicians to act before it is too late.

Both leaders think the Mississippi and its delta with its crippling environmental issues are a clear example of the problems facing the planet. The world's richest nation, with its development of the gulf of Mexico for oil and...

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