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I like your hat.Last week, we mentioned that Pope Benedict XVI (that’s fancy for “The Sixteenth”) spoke out on the topic of climate change on his way to Australia.   Now that he’s made his way to Sydney, the Pope is continuing on that same topic, telling a crowd of over 140,000 that humans are destroying the earth through it’s “insatiable consumption.”

Speaking at a youth festival, the Pope stated, “Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our earth: erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world’s mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption.”  The Vatican has also started purchasing carbon credits to offset the nation’s energy consumption in an effort to show in deed what the Pontiff states in word.

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The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. This week we celebrated some of our own favorite top 10 bloggers who work night and day to provide us up-to-date info on films, literature, and feminist news. Don’t miss these exciting and informative blogs, as well as some of our most popular stories of the week.

Katie:

“La Misma Luna Under the Same Moon,” Not the Same Old Movie

Top 5 Eco-Friendly Gadgets for Under $50

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Nicole:

Top 10 Literary and Book Blogs

NBC11 First Wind Powered TV Station

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Giulia:

Top 10 Feminist Blogs

Horton: The New Mascot for Pro-Life

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Gina:

Top 10 Film Blogs

Top 10 Films I Would See If I Was At SXSW

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Kerry:

Our Pharmaceutically Fouled Water Supply

Top 7 New Sins Against God’s Green Earth

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harry potterHarry Potter author JK Rowling outed her character Dumbledore in October. But now Rowling herself is coming out– against homophobia, which she describes as “a fear of people loving, more than it is of the sexual act.” Speaking to Student, Edinburgh University’s newspaper Rowling said:

There seems to be an innate distaste for the love involved, which I find absolutely extraordinary.The issue is love. It’s not about sex. So that’s what I knew about Dumbledore. And it’s relevant only in so much as he fell in love and was made an utter fool of by love.

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Has the Pope been hanging out with our favorite faux holy roller, the Reverend Billy? “ËœCause the Vatican’s brand new “To Don’t” list seems to take some pages straight from our pompadoured preacher’s playbook. According to the Daily Green, the 7 new sins include:

1. Genetic Modification
2. Experimenting on Humans
3. Polluting the Environment
4. Causing Social Injustice
5. Causing Poverty
6. Becoming Obscenely Wealthy
7. Taking Drugs

How palatable will these newly minted no-no’s be to a society that glorifies self-gratification?

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