FOR many whose intensified pace of life has caused their attention span to dwindle to a tweet, the Pope's latest encyclical will mean one thing: The leader of the largest church in the world can now be counted among the believers in manmade global warming.However, reducing "Laudato Si" ("Praised Be") — a 100-page, 38,000-word encyclical addressed to "all people of good will" — to this lone conclusion impoverishes it, making agriculture susceptible to select quotations found within it and allowing it tobe used as a theological prod by politicians and activists but, more importantly, causing agriculture to miss the unmistakable changing climate of the debate surrounding care for the planet, nature and, subsequently, the world's food supply.
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