South America tells the Pope to shut up about the environment... The poor say the Pope's policies will keep them downtrodden and unemployed. Enough already of this nonsense... 'But, she says, speaking at a park just across the river from the shuttered plant: “The life of that plant is more important than anything the pope says. Yes, we are poor. But that’s because the plant closed. That’s when the problems of poverty started.”' Pope gets pushback on environment http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article35848830.html "It’s possible Francis has overestimated his ability to affect global climate-change policy and thinking – even among the world’s poor, to whom he has dedicated his papacy. He is eager to influence the U.N. climate summit negotiations in Paris in December, but even that might be beyond his reach."