Greenpeace Shines Message For Trump On Vatican Before His Visit With The Pope

The dome of St. Peter’s Basilica was cast in a remonstration early Wednesday aimed at President Donald Trump just hours before his visit to the Vatican. Greenpeace’s Italian and German offices teamed up to project a message in lights on the Vatican to criticize the president’s recent actions ignoring climate change and his expected decision regarding U.S. involvement in the landmark Paris climate agreement. A message reading “Planet Earth first,” a play on Trump’s “America first” foreign policy slogan, was shown on the iconic basilica. “Climate change is the ultimate threat of our generation, and real world leaders are taking action now to safeguard our people,” Jennifer Morgan, Greenpeace International’s executive director, said in a statement. “Ahead of his meeting with the Pope, we delivered to Trump a message that his first priority must be to people and planet, not the profits of polluters. Trump cannot stop the clean energy transition and should instead focus on accelerating it.” Trump is expected to meet with Pope Francis inside the Vatican on Wednesday as part of his first foreign trip as president. The pope has long called for international action on climate change, saying the phenomenon is “a global problem with grave implications” and one of the “principal challenges facing humanity.” He has urged world leaders to remain in the Paris climate deal, even as Trum...
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