Islamic Declaration Blasts Short-Sighted Capitalism, Demands Action on Climate
(COMMON DREAMS) Jon Queally — The declaration by the Muslim leaders follows the widely lauded encyclicalreleased by Pope Francis, leader of the Roman Catholic Church, earlier this summer in which he called for a drastic transformation of the world’s economies and energy systems in order to stave off the worst impacts of an increasingly hotter planet. Additionally, hundreds of Jewish Rabbis also released a Rabbinic Letter on the Climate Crisis and dozens of other denominations and churches have joined the global movement to divest their financial holdings from the fossil fuel industry.