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Here's one solution that might have an effect.
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Amen, buy less shit, eat less meat and more locally grow veggies. Save energy. Spend more on research and education.
Would be a start.
he's not a scientist. 
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/06/dear-rick-santorum-pope-actually-did-study-science
The National Catholic Reporter and the Official Vatican Network both report that Francis, then Jorge Bergoglio, earned a technician's degree in chemistry from a technical school in Buenos Aires before joining the seminary. Sylvia Poggioli from NPR also reports Francis worked as a chemist. Listen to her report from Morning Edition, below, from Rome:
