The Pope is perfectly entitled to have his opinions about scientific problems such as this, but entitled to no particular deference. He turns this into a moral problem. He comes out of a Latin American strand of Catholicism that is frankly, sort of anti-capitalist and anti-bourgeois, and confused about how to help the poor,” Will says He says we have to burn less coal. You’re going to raise the price of electricity. It doesn’t mean a thing to the four of us, but it means a lot to poor people if the price of electricity goes up. And then he says the planet is in the grip of consumerism. There are about 2 billion people on this planet who wish to be in the grip of consumerism, but they’re too poor.