"In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has." -- Proverbs 21:20 (NIV 1984) This proverb condemns the fool who consumes all he has with no regard for the future. As a Christian who believes that it is as much a sin to be …
Continue reading GeoScriptures — Proverbs 21:20 — Sustainability
In between sessions at the young-Earth creation seminar I attended last month, there was a promotion for an upcoming anti-environmentalist documentary entitled "Axed: The End of Green," created by Montana filmmaker J.D. King. According to the promotional video, the objective of the documentary will be to expose "the dark side of the green movement for …
Continue reading There is more than one way to be really wrong about the environment
Mitt Romney's Environmental Platform -- Ummm, Mitt Romney doesn't seem to have an environmental platform. The menu at mittromney.com doesn't have "Environment" as an option. There isn't anything substantial about the environment that I could find on the site. I am a conservative, and will vote for Romney in November. But why can't we have …
Ronald Reagan was the antichrist. Barack Obama is conducting a war against Christianity. Anyone who believes humans are causing global warming is a left-wing, socialist, environmental wacko. Anyone who doesn't believe humans are causing global warming is an ignoramus. Christians who accept an old Earth or evolution are either dangerous compromisors, or maybe not Christians at …
From NASA Earth Observatory: 2011 Sea Ice Minimum From the description (emphasis added): In September 2011, sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean declined to the second-lowest extent on record. Satellite data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) showed that the summertime ice cover narrowly avoided a new record low. [...] …
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Depending on who's counting, the planet's human population either just hit seven billion or will some time soon (my desktop gadget says 6,925,052,273). Glenn, at Be Bold, Be Gentle, passes along a quote from Dupont VP Jim Borel: "This month, the global population reached 7 billion. Each year, the world population grows by about 78 …
From FoxNews: U.N. Prepares to Debate Whether 'Mother Earth' Deserves Human Rights Status United Nations diplomats on Wednesday will set aside pressing issues of international peace and security to devote an entire day debating the rights of “Mother Earth.” A bloc of mostly socialist governments lead by Bolivia have put the issue on the General …
Continue reading Does dirt have the same value as a human? Some thoughts on Bolivian Mother Earthism
There are disasters. There are megadisasters. And now there are complex megadisasters. From The Christian Science Monitor: Mega-quakes and mega-disasters: Will US heed wake-up call in Japan? The crisis in Japan could be considered the first "complex megadisaster" the world has ever seen — a potent combination of natural and technological calamities that might become …
Helping the poor and caring for the creation often go hand in hand. From Scott Sabin of Plant With Purpose: The Connection Between the Poor and the Earth. Here are a couple quotes: I frequently get asked how we, as Christians, choose between caring for the poor and caring for creation, as if we have …
Pope John Paul II had much to say about the environment and human responsibility for good stewardship of the creation. Here are a few quotes: "When man turns his back on the Creator's plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace …
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Helium. The second most abundant element in the entire universe. And a limited natural resource here on Earth. From the February 2011 print edition of National Geographic (page 22): the US Government's helium reserve has dwindled from 32 billion cubic feet in 1991 to 19 billion cubic feet in 2008. The United States' (and the …
From National Geographic: Going "All the Way": With Renewable Energy? In a world where fossil fuel provides more than 80 percent of energy, what would it take to go completely green? Could the world switch over to power from only the wind, sun, waves, and heat from the Earth in only a few decades? The …
From T.S. Eliot's essay, "The Idea of a Christian Society": A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God. Grace and Peace
One of the most significant influences that directed me into missionary service (my family served with ReachGlobal---the international mission of the Evangelical Free Church of America---from 2002 to 2008) was when we purchased a copy of Operation World back in the early days of our marriage. This book is a day-by-day prayer guide to the …
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A few items of interest (to me at least): Ark Encounter -- Answers in Genesis is planning a $150 million Noah's Ark tourist attraction in northern Kentucky, complete with a full-scale Noah's Ark. Local businesses and politicians (the governor of Kentucky was at the announcement) will love this, as it will likely bring in a …
From Yahoo! News/AP -- One scientist's hobby: recreating the ice age CHERSKY, Russia – Wild horses have returned to northern Siberia. So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Moose and reindeer are here, and may one day be joined by Canadian bison and deer. …
4/22/2013 -- For a much more Biblical view of nature than what you will hear from Ann Coulter, see my Earth Day 2013 entry: The goodness and fruitfulness of creation. See also the environmental quotes from Christian authors Francis Schaeffer and Steven Bouma-Prediger. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've seen this quote from conservative commentator Ann Coulter in several places, and I'm curious about …
Continue reading Did Ann Coulter really say “Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours”?
Francis Schaeffer, in Pollution and the Death of Man, wrote that "we should treat each thing with integrity because it is the way God has made it" (chapter 4, p. 54). He went on to write about trees: "The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized... …
Here are my "top 10" books that have had an impact on my life. Some of them have impacted millions of other people; a few may not be on the "top 10" list of anyone else on the planet. I would put the Bible as the #1 book, but it needs to be on its …
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