Can I be honest? (I think I heard you say yes.) I do not believe that man has created the warming of the earth. Everyone knows Al Gore does not believe it either, just like we know that he did not invent the Internet. He is a businessman and a good one too; he helped create a world-wide scare that has produced billions of dollars worth of profit. I do not dislike the man for his endeavors, I think he's rather good, maybe ethically he could use some work but who is perfect.
The earth is pretty large, do we really think that we can have such a great impact on it, I mean humanism is one thing but dang. Besides, our options as far as 'going green' are more like 'going backwards:' all those batteries that last only 5 years in hybrid vehicles are made of highly toxic materials that are very harmful to the earth; the light bulbs that we have been demanded to use have more mercury in them than the planet of the same name; the wind and solar harnessors could keep a pot of water boiling for a year if they combined all their powers like captain planet's followers; besides, most things that are being done are replacing people with--AH!--robots and just like a person in the boom of the machines a century or so ago, I protest and say I wont wait around while computers take-away my job! Maybe the Terminator movies were not too far off.
I love the earth, but I do not worship it: I am a created thing and it is a created thing, God created us both. I do not mind leaving around a carbon footpath for others to follow me by, and I do not appreciate people telling me that I am destroying the earth.
As much as this present generation is for their 'rights' and speaking for the inanimate objects that they feel need a hearing, no one has considered the thoughts of the very things that we feel are unpleasantly 'suffering'--I cannot bear to rightly call a floating piece of ice something that is suffering. Did anyone think that perhaps the ice wants to melt. They have been up north for so long, why not visit the islands in water form? Who are we to demand that those chunks of ice stay in that one place, maybe they feel enslaved to the poles and want to get away, maybe they feel like they deserve a vacation, after all some of those things have been ripped off and used by photographers for a long time! And the polar bear; they may not like the cold. Maybe they decided that living up north was not so great, they cannot build nice igloos to live in after all. So maybe we--if we can positively say we are the responsible ones for the sometimes warming of our earth . . . which we cannot--are actually doing these guys a favor, think of the rights of those poor creatures for heaven's sake, can't they have a say?
Think of the irony of this whole environmental movement, it is a slow dictatorship snarling at most of us. I find it ironic that the shift to the earth and all its soulless creatures has, in large part, turned the world's focus off of the previously known as third-world countries and their people. In comparison to environment worshipers there are hardly any great humanitarian workers. Like the UN most people just sit around and go, 'This probably isn't right, someone should probably do something about that . . . but not me.' I do not want to destroy the earth, I am thankful for it, but I do not think I am, at least in the way most think I am.
In the end people do not want to save the earth, they want to save themselves, their reputation, their lives. Businesses bow to the green movement to their mockery because they do not want to lose business; angry and self righteous people--usually coupled together like that--pick up on the green movement so they can think they are better than all those brown-content killers! And they feel justified in calling us names and saying we are evil; the quiet, never-doing-much type is thrilled in joining a community of single-minded people, they can be apart of something 'real;' the guilty folks who never feel like they measure up join because they are extended some kind of hope for their lives; the people who really are concerned with the earth worship it most often. We humans are a mess, myself included and we need big-time help. Saving the earth will not save our souls; condemning others while we look 'better' only condemns our own selves.
Christ, who I follow, is one day going to--shield your eyes--destroy the earth. It is true! But he is going to make a new one that is much better. There will not be suffering and sin or Satan, only real peace worshiping God, the creator of this earth. The only way to be there in his joy is to realize that you are not perfect and have zero chance of being so and that you need a savior. Then believe in Christ, believe he is who he says he is and believe that he has done all that he has said he has done. He is the only one who can take away your guilt and shame; your sin and allow you to go joyfully head-long into your suffering; he alone can give you perfect righteousness before the all-seeing Judge. Which earth are you living for?
Most environmentalism is total bs and it is very much about making money. Which, making money is a good thing but only in an honest productive way. This is how stupid we are as a species: "Everyone turn off your electricity to save the earth." Really? C-mon...is it really logical that reverting back to the 1700's will "save" the earth? It's more likely that technology we are producing will allow us to master the earth and use it in a more wise manner. And, going green will completely destroy the ability of 3rd world countries ever becoming industrialized and thus prosperous. Idiots.
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