How Pope Leo will approach climate change is unclear, but the vibe is positive

How Pope Leo will approach climate change is unclear, but the vibe is positive

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a sweltering January day in 2018, Pope Francis addressed 100,000 of the faithful in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, not far from where gold mining had ravaged an expanse of Amazon rainforest about the size of Colorado. “The native Amazonian peoples have probably never been so threatened on their own lands as they are at present,” he told the…