Pope Benedict XVI

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• The leader of the Catholic Church uses an electric Popemobile on the grounds of solar-power-friendly Vatican City
• Pope Benedict XVI has been increasingly vocal about the suffering that climate change may bring to the world's poor.  He has said that humans must listen to "the voice of the earth,"
• He has supported the celebration of a "day for the safeguarding of Creation,"
• He has spoken out on the need to protect the Amazon,
• He has denounced factory farming.
• In his recent Sacramentum Caritatis, he endorsed the need for environmental stewardship guided by Catholic faith: "The justified concern about threats to the environment present in so many parts of the world is reinforced by Christian hope, which commits us to working responsibly for the protection of Creation."