A letter published in the Medical Journal of Australia, in which obstetrician and associate professor of medicine, Barry NJ Walters, wrote has called for a levy to be imposed on family having two children or more and an additional carbon tax on each child.
This comment sparked an outrage, with Cardinal Pell describing it as the work of a neo-pagan who possessed an anti-human mentality and questioned the credibility of the journal for publishing the letter.
"I am not sure what is more extraordinary, that an obstetrician could hold such a view or that a leading medical journal could publish such a view, but either way, this is a striking illustration of where a minority neo-pagan, anti-human mentality, wants to take us," Cardinal Pell told the Australian news publication.
Cardinal Pell, a trenchant critic against the issue of climate change, said the global warming 'doomsdayers' were painting extreme scenarios to frighten to us.
"We have been subjected to a lot of nonsense about climate disasters as some zealots have been painting extreme scenarios to frighten us," he said. "They claim ocean levels are about to rise spectacularly, that there could be the occasional tsunami as high as an eight story building, the Amazon basin could be destroyed as the ice cap in the Arctic and in Greenland melts."
However, other Christians disagreed with his view. Dr. Brian Edgar, the former head of the theology department at the Australia Evangelical Alliance, said climate change was a critical issue that affected every individual on the earth.
Furthermore, the three Protestant denominations - Anglicans, Greek Orthodox, and Baptists – had invoked the Book of Genesis to justify the 'wilful' destruction was a sin while Dr. Edgar added it was a Christian responsibility to take care of the environment, which is part of God's creation.