Jerry Brown on Wednesday urged the world’s mayors to emulate Mahatma Gandhi and the 12 disciples of Jesus Christ as they fight to halt climate change and win over skeptics.
In his speech at the second day of a conference on global warming hosted at the Vatican by Pope Francis, the California governor urged the mayors in the audience to “think of those instances where radical change occurred.”
“And being right here in Rome where we can walk through the ruins of a great Roman Empire gives us an example,” he said. “It was defeated not by another empire, but by 12 Galileans who had no money, who didn’t even speak Latin but who began the process of taking down the Roman Empire and replacing it with Christianity.