Earth Day Scenerio - The Sky Is Falling
By
Marty
on April 24, 2006 at 04:50 pm
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Thank heavens that Earth Day has passed and the sky hasn't fallen or, in the modern version of the environmentalist Chicken Littles, the sea hasn't risen from global warming sufficiently to inundate the world's coastal cities and settlements.
Alarmists who have predicted the end of the world have always been with us. The Old Testament of the Bible is filled with prophets that preached with great detail and accuracy the demise that would befall the Israelites if they did not mend their evil ways. In our modern times the vision of a doomsayer is more likely to be that of a unwashed person in sandals and carrying a sign which bears the message that the End is Near. However in current times, environmentalists seemed to have become the fatalists predicting various disasters resulting from either global cooling, global warming or whatever is the latest global catastrophe with the scape goat always being industrialization and modern civilization.
As Mark Steyn writes in his Sun Times article, Nothing to fear but the climate change alarmists, the nuclear holocaust fears of the Cold War are now blasé even though there are many more countries that have or are capable of producing nuclear weapons.
Alarmists who have predicted the end of the world have always been with us. The Old Testament of the Bible is filled with prophets that preached with great detail and accuracy the demise that would befall the Israelites if they did not mend their evil ways. In our modern times the vision of a doomsayer is more likely to be that of a unwashed person in sandals and carrying a sign which bears the message that the End is Near. However in current times, environmentalists seemed to have become the fatalists predicting various disasters resulting from either global cooling, global warming or whatever is the latest global catastrophe with the scape goat always being industrialization and modern civilization.
As Mark Steyn writes in his Sun Times article, Nothing to fear but the climate change alarmists, the nuclear holocaust fears of the Cold War are now blasé even though there are many more countries that have or are capable of producing nuclear weapons.
So what should we worry about? How about -- stop me if you've heard this one before -- "climate change"? That's the subject of Al Gore's new movie, ''An Inconvenient Truth.'' Like the trailer says: "If you love your planet -- if you love your children -- you have to see this movie." Even if you were planning to kill your children because you don't want them to live in a nuclear wasteland, see this movie. The mullahs won't get a chance to nuke us because, thanks to rising sea levels, Tehran will be under water.As Mark suggests, environmentalism has developed a cult-like following which has long ceased to be scientifically credible.
Environmentalism doesn't need the support of the church, it's a church in itself -- and furthermore, one explicitly at odds with Christianity: God sent His son to Earth as a man, not as a three-toed tree sloth or an Antarctic krill. An environmentalist can believe man is no more than a co-equal planet dweller with millions of other species, and that he's taking up more than his fair share and needs to reduce both his profile and his numbers. But that's profoundly hostile to Christianity.And more specifically to all humanity. On this, a Dr. Susan Blackmore writing in the Guardian, has this to say:
"In all probability billions of people are going to die in the next few decades. Our poor, abused planet cannot take much more. . . . If we decide to put the planet first, then we ourselves are the pathogen. So we should let as many people die as possible, so that other species may live, and accept the destruction of civilization and of everything we have achieved.Those that are concerned about making Blackmore's short list should be wary of letting people like Susan Blackmore and Al Gore who, like Chicken Littles, can't tell an acorn from the sky control the future of this planet.
"Finally, we might decide that civilization itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population -- weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example."
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