Using the market to address climate change
Does Pope Francis understand the free market? Certainly some critics of his encyclical on the environment, "Laudato Si鈥", claim he does not. But venture capitalist and social entrepreneur, John Denniston, and the Ethics Center鈥檚 Director of Leadership Ethics, Ann Skeet, see wisdom in the pope鈥檚 argument that moral considerations should temper the approach of businesses to their environmental responsibilities.
John Denniston鈥檚 remarks start at 3:40 in this video; Ann Skeet鈥檚 begin at 31:30. This presentation was part of a larger conversation about "Laudato Si鈥," 鈥淥ur Future on a Shared Planet: Silicon Valley in Conversation with the Environmental Teachings of Pope Francis,鈥 sponsored by 糖心破解版鈥檚 Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, Nov 3-4, 2015.