...to Climategate reminds me rather much of the grand Oz operating his machine and shouting out: "Ignore the man behind the curtain!" Didn't work for the Great and Terrible; doubt it will work for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change either.
I'll share my unsolicited thoughts on this. Whether or not we are of any cause to the globe's temperatures or not is irrelevant. If we take a reactionary approach to care for creation, we act devoid of any virtue whatsoever. Conversely, if we act as if we have no responsibility to care for creation, we ignore God's clear Word and again act without any kind of virtue.
We, especially as Christians, who recognize not only the createdness, but the redeemedness of creation, should give a rip about how we treat the world we live in. We should take care of it, whether it has any affect on global climate temperatures or not (though I would add, there's more than just temperatures at stake... try breathing in St. Louis on a muggy summer day). We should repent of our materialism, our disregard for what has been given to us, and our selfishness.
Thus, having heard some pure economic arguments that cap & trade would inevitably bring down the cost of alternative energies (simply that given the incentive to produce more things like windmills, solar panels, etc, the overall fixed cost of production would go down), I don't think it's entirely a bad idea. The big problem I have is the wrong arguments are being made, and thus kneejerk-reactive decisions are being made.
Which Climategate is this? I guess I'm watching the wrong news...
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ReplyDeleteCheck here:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2188feb3-802a-23ad-4de4-3fbc0a92e126&Issue_id
Way too much Koolaide being imbibed by government!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'll share my unsolicited thoughts on this. Whether or not we are of any cause to the globe's temperatures or not is irrelevant. If we take a reactionary approach to care for creation, we act devoid of any virtue whatsoever. Conversely, if we act as if we have no responsibility to care for creation, we ignore God's clear Word and again act without any kind of virtue.
ReplyDeleteWe, especially as Christians, who recognize not only the createdness, but the redeemedness of creation, should give a rip about how we treat the world we live in. We should take care of it, whether it has any affect on global climate temperatures or not (though I would add, there's more than just temperatures at stake... try breathing in St. Louis on a muggy summer day). We should repent of our materialism, our disregard for what has been given to us, and our selfishness.
Thus, having heard some pure economic arguments that cap & trade would inevitably bring down the cost of alternative energies (simply that given the incentive to produce more things like windmills, solar panels, etc, the overall fixed cost of production would go down), I don't think it's entirely a bad idea. The big problem I have is the wrong arguments are being made, and thus kneejerk-reactive decisions are being made.