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The Pope's fateful vision of hope for society and the planet

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The Pope's encyclical challenges incremental approaches that have dominated climate change discourse, and brings a much needed moral vision to the environmental movement. Social scientists are required to join this effort.

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  1. Robert J. Brulle is in the Department of Sociology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA,

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  2. Robert J. Antonio is in the Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA,

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Brulle, R., Antonio, R. The Pope's fateful vision of hope for society and the planet. Nature Clim Change 5, 900–901 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2796

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