A draft of Pope Francis' highly anticipated encyclical on
climate change was leaked by an Italian magazine on Monday, reaffirming his
stance that human activity and fossil fuels are to blame and urging a global
response to take action.
The leaked encyclical, or papal teaching letters to
the Roman Catholic church, was a 192-page draft that cites scientific evidence
about the role of humans in global warming, calls on people to move away from a
consumerist lifestyle, and pushes for governments to work together on climate
solutions such as moving away from carbon credits.
The Vatican emphasized the
document, leaked by L'Espresso, was not in its final version and will remain
under embargo until Thursday.
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