Posted on 04/21/2019 9:12:58 PM PDT by Ezekiel
Nature’s gifts to our planet are the millions of species that we know and love, and many more that remain to be discovered. Unfortunately, human beings have irrevocably upset the balance of nature and, as a result, the world is facing the greatest rate of extinction since we lost the dinosaurs more than 60 million years ago. But unlike the fate of the dinosaurs, the rapid extinction of species in our world today is the result of human activity.
The unprecedented global destruction and rapid reduction of plant and wildlife populations are directly linked to causes driven by human activity: climate change, deforestation, habitat loss, trafficking and poaching, unsustainable agriculture, pollution and pesticides to name a few. The impacts are far reaching.
If we do not act now, extinction may be humanity’s most enduring legacy.
(Excerpt) Read more at earthday.org ...
Over a dozen years ago, as I was having a purchase rung up at a hippy-inspired gift store (so I went there for the cotton textiles), a young employee was telling her coworkers that her HS senior class had chosen its motto (I guess that's a thing):
"Those who matter, don't mind, and those who mind, don't matter."
This has always stuck with me because of the saying and the way she said it. I wondered what soulless, dystopian universe I had stepped into. I wondered what these kids were up to, such that it was important for them to make a class motto about dismissing (or worse) those who mind their attitudes and behavior. Must have been class full of real winners. Must have been a school run by real winners.
She was quite proud of her generation of enlightened thinkers. Disagree with us, and you simply don't matter, don't exist. Problem solved.
Don't... a small step from "won't".
Perhaps the real world corrected her course in life, but the real world minds, so it doesn't matter. That's the trouble with reality. Wherever these people go, there it is anyway. It then becomes the "higher law" to station wind turbine sentries along the hilltops to destroy the view and keep the unenlightened in check. Shredded bird carcasses, to send a message.
Well the good news is that evil overplays its hand and Haman was hanged on the gallows that he had constructed for Mordecai (today in history, Nisan 17). Gallows, tree... same word.
"Tree huggers", they chose poorly. Then they named their high holy day "Earth" Day, the first place in the Bible that became a waste and a desolation, immediately. No sooner do you go from verse 1 to verse 2, and there's the first "Earth Day", to send a message.
moovova said,
All that Earthday huff & puff...and they never mentioned the actual date.
Heh, it's like those people on death row who never know what day will be "the day", but they know it's coming one day.
Just like the Good Book says, And there was evening, and there was morning, "one day". Day one...
You're on a roll with the insight. Your math works, because 22 is the new toddler, the "terrible twos."
Looks like the prophets saw it coming:
Isaiah 1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
“22 is the new toddler”
My 21 year-old nephew will love hearing that!
Isn’t a man trying to masquerade as a woman upsetting the balance of nature...or at least attempting to?
Not sure that bit about the dinosaurs would agree with what the Bible says. Of course, that doesn’t mean necessarily that dinosaurs existed in the same locations as humans.
About the deforestation....the things I’ve read say we have more forestation in the US now than we had in 1900.
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