True North Pathway: December 2007

The following two video posts (10 min's each) pose two views on global warming. Attacking Gore and his charts, the second video (Global Warming Hoax) pokes holes in the belief that we have entered a time of climate crisis. Some of their arguments are convincing, and I'm certain there are many missing links coming from the mouths of the climate doomsayers.

And yet.

It's puzzling. Many who say we are not in a time of climate concern enter the argument from a standpoint of right versus wrong or us versus them. It smacks of standard bred politics where there is no middle ground or open discussion. One digs his heals in the ground facing one way, another stands opposed. Together, they tug o' war.

I appreciate the first video (The Most Terrifying...). It is a good argument to act and make change no matter what your view.

Crisis or not, making changes in how we live and interact with our world makes sense. We are called, each of us, to be responsible with what we have been given. Should we wait until the final jury is in? Or, why not act as if there is a climate crisis even if there is no climate crisis? Reducing waste, cleaning up our air, living with less that others might have just a little, slowing down our lives, living more simply, and ... and ... and ...

Someone once said to me that the world will be destroyed by God because of sin. Therefore, let's cast off our responsibility in the present, shall we? Even if Tim LaHaye is your theology, we are still not removed in the present from caring for what is God's. I've been given a body. If I believe I'm on that heavenly road and will receive a new body when I arrive, it doesn't mean I am allowed the freedom to eat to my heart's content and abuse my body in the present.

Planetary diabetes, here we come.

Maybe.