Returning to Earth Worship, Part 1

Citizen Review Online.org ^ | 9/29/03 | Michael S. Coffman

[Libloather]

Dr. Michael S. Coffman received his BS in Forestry and MS in Biology at Northern Arizona University at Flagstaff, Arizona and his Ph.D. in Forest Science at the University of Idaho at Moscow in 1966,1967, and 1970 respectively. Since then he has become a respected scientist and ecologist who has been involved in ecosystem research for over twenty years in both academia and industry. He taught courses and conducted research in forest ecology and forest community dynamics for ten years at Michigan Technological UniversityCa leading forestry school in the Midwest. While there, he published a book on forest ecosystem classification in Upper Michigan and Northern Wisconsin, which has become the standard for classification in the region. He also assisted the U.S. Forest Service in developing an Ecological Land Classification System for each of the National Forests in Region-9.

Until 1992 Dr. Coffman was a manager for Champion International, a leading forest and paper products company in the United States. During his tenure with Champion, he became Chairman of the Forest Health Group within NCASI (National Council for the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement), a respected scientific research group for the Paper Industry. In this, and other related responsibilities, he was responsible for millions of dollars of research and became intimately involved in such national and international issues as acid rain, global climate change, wetlands, cumulative effects and biological diversity. During this time he was a spokesperson for the Paper Industry for the media.

Dr. Coffman is currently President of Environmental Perspectives, Inc. He also serves as Executive Director of Sovereignty International, Inc and the Local Environment and Resource Network (LEARN). He provides professional guidance and training in defining environmental problems and conflicts, and developing solutions to specific issues as well as the hidden dangers of international treaties and agreements that threaten our Constitutional protections, especially property rights. He played a key role in stopping the ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Biodiversity Treaty) in the U.S. Senate one hour before the ratification vote by anticipating and exposing the unbelievable agenda behind the treaty. He has written three books exposing the environmentalist phenomenon; The Birth of World Government, Saviors of the Earth? The Politics and Religion of Environmentalism, and Environmentalism! The Dawn of Aquarius or the Twilight of a new Dark Age?

In his present capacity as Exec. Director of Sovereignty International, Inc. he is intimately involved with the science that drives the issue of global warming and sustainable development and global political agenda behind the effort to create global governance. Dr. Coffman speaks to a variety of groups nationally who are interested in the scientific truth and political agenda behind global warming and other environmental issues to advance global governance.

LEARN provides knowledge to local citizens on how to help local government attain equal powers with the federal and state governments in implementing environmental laws in order to protect both the environment and the rights of local citizens. E-Mail: mcoffman@adelphia.net

[farmfriend]

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[Sonny M]

Ain't no way you'll ever see me praying to dirt.

[Carry_Okie]

The Western worldview, argues the GBA, "is characteristic of large-scale societies.... It is a world view that is characterized by the denial of sacred attributes of nature...[which] became firmly established about 2000 years [ago] with the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religious traditions."

This characterization is appallingly wrong as anyone who has read Genesis 2:15 would know (see my tagline). Our entire purpose for being on earth is "to dress and to keep." God's punishment in Genesis 3 to Adam was environmental, to labor and eat of the herb of the field and to suffer thorns and thistles. One look at Central Asia would convince anyone that such a threat is serious. Now consider the spread of thistle species to the US: starthistle, knapweed, russian thistle, or catsear. These plants dry out the soil and destroy its' productive capacity. If you read Leviticus 26, God's punishments for violating His Laws and statutes threaten vines that don't yield, and earth as brass. It's environmental punishment.

The pagan way is in direct conflict with God's laws whether lacking faith in His creation, our gifts, or His providence. Earth worship and principally environmental preservation will, in my opinion, enevitably lead to environmental destruction regardless of how appealing are its promises. The reasons are numerous and technically substantiable. For example: one need only consider how the Wildlands Project will allow pestilence to spread unabated, or contagion to spread among large animals and wipe out populations over an entire continent before we can respond or contain it. It is a disastrous policy.

These people at the UN know that well, but are too in love with the idea of a planet they can claim to themselves after having killed off their competition, one made in their own image, a planet virtually devoid of humanity. One has to ask how much they hate themselves.

Little do they realize that they will be unable to recover having allowed such an outcome. It takes an enormous amount of wealth and labor to care for land. Restoring habitat is intellectually and physically demanding, expensive, and requires a level of intimacy with a parcel not possible with the occasional visit from a bureaucrat. Theirs is a system founded in faith that is doomed to fail.

There is a better way. It starts with private property.

[LiteKeeper]

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[farmfriend]

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[Chad Fairbanks]

Great to see you back and pinging away, my Property Rights FRiend - thanks for the ping!

[farmfriend]

Thanks my unusual friend.

[Chad Fairbanks]

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[marsh2]

If you want to see how far these ideas have become embedded, here is a link to the California Biodiversity Council: http://ceres.ca.gov/biodiv/

Here is a link to their latest newsletter: http://ceres.ca.gov/biodiv/newsletter/v10n2/news_fall03.html
I am particularly found of the growing "Environmental justice" moverment that stresses "environment; equity; and economy" - in other words, socialism.

Here is a link to another one of my favorites: the California Legacy Project: http://www.legacy.ca.gov

[E.G.C.]

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[F-117A]

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[Northern Yankee]

I've seen paydirt, but never praydirt.

[Guillermo]

Pantheism is an Approved State-Sponsored religion.

[sergeantdave]

A New Swastika

There can be no private property, free enterprise, or individual liberty under Sustainable Development. Instead, group thought, plans and actions dictate a well-orchestrated agenda designed to transform America.

This is totalitarianism. It’s about controlling our lives with decisions made by committees that will grow more powerful and more oppressive with every passing day and with each new regulation proposed by newly empowered special interest groups. There will be no satisfying their lust for power, and no part of our lives will be overlooked.

The logo for Sustainable Development, with its three connecting circles, should be viewed by all who love liberty as the new swastika of our era. There is no greater threat to our way of life. - Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center

[blackie]

Big Bump!

[jedwardtremlett]

"Diametrically opposite to Christianity, Judaism and Islam pantheistic beliefs make no allowance for a one true God who created all things of nature. Instead, pantheism holds that all earth and all of nature is god, comprised of many gods and goddesses, all of whom demand total worship and obedience from every human. Failure to do so will evoke the wrath of these gods."

Well, in the old days that certainly was true. Most modern Pagans don't run around thinking the Earth Mother's going to splat them into paste for missing a ritual, though, and I really don't want much to do with the few who still do.

J

[yankeedame]

Though few Christians are aware of it, the cry to "save the earth," "be sustainable" and "live in harmony with nature" is rooted in the ancient pantheistic religions that dominated the Egyptian, Babylonian, Grecian and Roman Empires.

It would appear that the good doctor does not have what you would call an iron grip on the ancient history of this region.