Tuesday, March 28, 2006
The Environment - It Never Ends
Haven't heard much about the Evangelical Initiative on Climate Change in a few weeks - thankfully. But it raised it's head again this week in, of all places, The Huffington Post Blog.
A lot of this nonsense is based on articles like this one:
The basic premise is that because the poor cannot afford the protections the weathly can, they will suffer more in any disaster. Ah, but that begs the question - is the problem the disaster or the poverty? More importantly, is it really altruism if we create ever more expensive solutions for "global warming" so the impoverished can stay impoverished. I'd much rather bring them out of their poverty.
This is so transparent as to not even be useful. It is obvious that certain parties are attempting to leverage the moral authority of the church to their own ends.
Prometheus blog linked to the UK think tank on the recent ban on public smoking in the UK. The think tank said this
Oh, and just a note while we are looking at things environmental. There as an article in the NYTimes last week about how wonderful in was that a few harbor seals had moved onto some smaller islands off Staten Island. Well they are all over the harbors out here in CA and they are pests. The often take up residence on the front of people's boats in marina's and get territorial, denying people access to their own property.
One man's wonderful wildlife in another man's pest. I'm sure I could get a lot of people to help me round up the harbor seals out here and send them to New York if they really want them.
Related Tags: Evangelical Initiative, climate change, global warming, poverty, harbor seals, silly, circular reasoning
Two thousand years ago, a small group of Christians faced hungry lions in order to carry out Jesus' command to "love one another." Today, Christians and our leaders are called to action again.Fair enough - why don't we start with the immediate, how about drunk driving, or how about extreme sports - I personally know someone that lost thier life to snowboarding. I mean, why is this call so important on some fuzzy future issue, but we can't find our way clear on the stuff right in our face?
A lot of this nonsense is based on articles like this one:
The basic premise is that because the poor cannot afford the protections the weathly can, they will suffer more in any disaster. Ah, but that begs the question - is the problem the disaster or the poverty? More importantly, is it really altruism if we create ever more expensive solutions for "global warming" so the impoverished can stay impoverished. I'd much rather bring them out of their poverty.
This is so transparent as to not even be useful. It is obvious that certain parties are attempting to leverage the moral authority of the church to their own ends.
Prometheus blog linked to the UK think tank on the recent ban on public smoking in the UK. The think tank said this
As we have seen from media coverage of the issue, the question of whether we should allow or forbid smoking in pubs is about much more than what we know of its dangers. At the very least, it's also about liberty, it's about responsibility and it's about economics.The same thing is true when it comes to Christian imperatives and global warming - if we accept the science, and I don't accept all of it - there are a number of other concerns at play here.
We must acknowledge that, most of the time, science cannot tell us what to do. Science's voice must be heard, but it must not drown out others. The smoking ban that disappeared and then reappeared is a political mess. But this should only come as a surprise to those people who thought that there was an easy answer.
Oh, and just a note while we are looking at things environmental. There as an article in the NYTimes last week about how wonderful in was that a few harbor seals had moved onto some smaller islands off Staten Island. Well they are all over the harbors out here in CA and they are pests. The often take up residence on the front of people's boats in marina's and get territorial, denying people access to their own property.
One man's wonderful wildlife in another man's pest. I'm sure I could get a lot of people to help me round up the harbor seals out here and send them to New York if they really want them.
Related Tags: Evangelical Initiative, climate change, global warming, poverty, harbor seals, silly, circular reasoning
