Posted on 11/15/2016 4:33:17 PM PST by ebb tide
Yes, and the best way to protect the planet is to unleash the free market, respect property rights, and uphold the rule of law. The cleanest countries are the ones with economic freedom and progress. The countries with the most pollution are run by socialist tyrants.
I’m not sure what you are saying. I’m concerned with our care of our planet. Sure, we could be hit by an asteroid, and that wouldn’t be our fault; but a lot of stuff IS our fault.
I’ve spent my entire life in Maryland, where the Chesapeake Bay, for centuries, produced enough food to feed millions.
During the last century, pollution killed the bay grasses, to the point where the Bay didn’t produce at all as it had in the past.
The pollution was man-made, a result of technology outpacing our concern for and knowledge about the ecology.
There are cities in Asia where people have to walk around wearing masks, to protect their respiratory systems from the air pollution.
I don’t believe in ‘global warming’, as it is being promoted as an economic redistribution scheme. But human beings HAVE definitely caused deleterious changes to the natural environment.
We have to get ahead of these things, all aside from politics and greed, simply so that future generations can survive healthily.
God isn’t going to ‘fix’ this. He expects us to help ourselves, using all of the resources that He gave us. He expects us to husband our Earth wisely.
That certainly can't be denied. A textbook example of that is Yellowstone National Park :
Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park December 17, 1987 by Alston Chase (Author)
Incomplete understanding of a complex problem cannot justify ignoring that good intentions often contributes significantly to a permanent serious mistake.
Worth a glance...
Not on the scale that you keep implying. And usually premised on two factors.First the limit of knowledge about the "project."
Second, The rational invariant conscious decision, to the extent possible, of the benefit to humanity outweighing the "damage" to Gaia, as an arbitrary end in itself.
We probably would not approve of the Egyptians' "Environmental Report" before wholesale degradation that some, today might arbitrarily deem a unique sensitive desert environment.
We have to get ahead of these things, all aside from politics and greed, simply so that future generations can survive healthily.
That drifts solidly into the realm of faith, which is a fool's errand to challenge. Politics and greed are no less a virtue than arrogance and ignorance as a moral pulpit.
God isnt going to fix this. He expects us to help ourselves, using all of the resources that He gave us. He expects us to husband our Earth wisely.
Forgive my reluctance at accepting the statements of a scientific "Elmer Gantry," combined with the arrogance to speak for God.
My money remains on God, with the help of man's obligation to exercise his God-given sense of survival to the best of his ability, with the tools at his disposal.
If the last 60 years are any indication, speculative coercive promoters of doom have been unanimously wrong with both their interpretation of past climate records AND their 100% (to date) utter failure of predictive computer models, while not hesitating to issue new "predictions," every few years without the bother of investing the time and effort to find new verifiable facts; i.e., actual science.
But that is a whole other discussion.
Duh... and we do it. Pope Paronista I speaks again.
What's really important now is that Trump does NOT believe in the global warming scam either.
What is even more important is that Trump is going to gut Hussein's EPA. Coal is one of America's economic advantages over the rest of the world. Cheap coal means cheap electricity. Hussein was destroying electric generation more efficiently than any well organized terrorist attack on our electric infrastructure could have.
Plan on the electric rates you pay to go down.
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