Monday, 27 April 2009
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Has Caring for the Earth Become More Important Than Caring for Humans?
I have been thinking about this subject for awhile and the other day I heard something on the radio that made me think about it even more. Going "green" and celebrating Earth day is so overrated.Don't get me wrong; I love our earth and I love this country. I think that we should do our part to keep the earth clean and not leave our trash all over the place, because God has given us this earth and expects us to take care of it. But the problem is that people are obsessing with going green.
Earth day has become more a holiday than an awareness day. People are worshiping the Creation instead of the Creator! It's sad when I think of all the people who are so obsessed with endangered species, and saving a tree, instead of caring about the babies that are dying everyday because of abortion. When has the earth become more important than a human life? Why must we worship the earth instead of worshiping he God who created this beautiful earth that we live in?
United States of America
Looks like another silent night
As we're sung to sleep by philosophies
That save the trees and kill the childrenAmerica, what will we miss while we are sleeping
Will Jesus come again
And leave us slumbering where we lay
America, will we go down in history
As a nation with no room for its KingCasting Crowns - "While you were Sleeping"
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Without the Earth, there can be no people. If we don't get serious by the year 2020 the ozone will be irreversable. That means the glaciers will melt and the oceans will increase in size, and it will be so hot it won't be tolerable.
Interesting point.
"Going green" is just a huge fad right now. Most of the people wearing the "go green" shirts cannot even explain global warming, or even name one fossil fuel.
I, for one, will continue to take care of the earth God blessed us with and remember His blessing. :)
Without an Earth there will be no humans, and with there being no humans and all, there won't be much worshiping happening.
And last I check humans were far from the endangered species list. We're doing just fine without any kind of mating interventions, unlike those adorable red pandas. But we're all going to be on the endangered species list if we continue to treat Earth like shit.
@the_imperfect@xanga - That is quite the annoyance...to see "Going Green" shirts on people that don't give a crap about the earth and drive Hummers.
Anyway...you don't see Humans being poisoned by the earth, they poison
themselves. And if we don't take care of the earth, being the dominant
species on the planet, who will?
It's a reflection of the creation onto the Creator when one creation respects and loves and cares for another creation.
I agree with you. And I don't believe in Global Warming (or as they say now, Climate Change, which I think is a bit of a cop-out since it includes both the original idea and it's opposite, just to cover the bases). I do think we should take care of the planet, but just so we won't be strangling ducks with plastic soda rings nor wading in garbage. But if you think about it, there was a time when things were just as horribly dirty.... I mean, they didn't even use gas, but they dumped their urine and feces into the streets. THAT has to be one of the grossest things I can imagine. And although it could decompose, it would spread disease, which is a big issue too....
But I definitely agree on the humans vs. nature issue. We need to stop supporting abortions and then turning around and sobbing about an oiled seal. We should be our first priority, not the animals; they sure as heck don't go out of their way to help us, now do they? Not that we shouldn't treat them well, but we are first priority, because we are human.
Just another thing we can worship to take God out of the picture. We have destroyed it, but He will renew it.
1) You shouldn't stop trying to save the earth because you think another topic (like abortion) needs more attention.
2) Many problems in foreign countries are a direct result of a lack of care for the environment. More people die in foreign countries everyday because they don't have decent drinking water than babies from abortion.
3) The best things you can do for the environment are simple: reducing the amount of products that you use, reusing whatever materials you can, and recycling. If we eliminated bottled water and got everyone to use aluminum or steel bottles they filled themselves instead we would already be doing a ton.
4) God made us stewards of the earth--it was our primary role at creation (Adam named and lorded over the animals). We should continue to do so today.
The issue isn't that we shouldn't care for the earth, but that we shouldn't worship the earth or place a grearter importance on animals and trees than we place on fellow humans.
I think this is a great post and I completely agree. There is too much emphasis placed on "going green." Global warming is nothing but a political scam. Worshipping God should be our first priority. Loving our neighbor should be a close second. The earth and animals were created by God for our (human's) use. That doesn't mean we should use them carelessly - of course we should be good stewards of all that God has given us - but the needs of fellow humans should always come before the needs of animals or trees.
Global Warming is a hoax.
the earth just underwent a global cooling period from the early 1900s til the late 80s... and now its renewing itself...
people are such idiots n so apocalyptic
just becus big media says Global warming is true its true.
PLEASE.
even the founder of the Weather channel has very good reason to believe Global warming is a hoax... and a ploy for these pseudo scientists and politicians to further ANOTHER agenda...
Genesis tells us we are given animals [so long as its eaten with no blood on it] and plants to eat... but now according to a bunch of nutcases it is a sin now to eat animals...
people need to set their priorities straight
for some reason killing a baby is more acceptable than killing an animal
Humans only contribute .28% to the change in "climate" greenhouse effect...
less than 1% even with all the "evil machinery" etc..lets get real guys.
"Known causes of global climate change, like cyclical eccentricities in
Earth's rotationand
orbit, as well as variations in the
sun's energy output, are the primary causes of climate cycles measured over the last half million years. However, secondary greenhouse effects stemming from changes in the ability of a warming atmosphere to support greater concentrations of gases like water vapor and carbon dioxide also appear to play a significant role. As demonstrated in the data above, of all Earth's greenhouse gases, water vapor is by far the dominant player.
The ability of humans to influence greenhouse water vapor is negligible. As such, individuals and groups whose agenda it is to require that human beings are the cause of global warming must discount or ignore the effects of water vapor to preserve their arguments, citing numbers similar to those in Table 4b . If political correctness and staying out of trouble aren't high priorities for you, go ahead and ask them how water vapor was handled in their models or statistics. Chances are, it wasn't!"
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
We are to be care takers of the Earth. I don't think God intended us to neglect the Earth in Favor of people. With out trees we don't breath, some of those endangered species could help in finding cures to cancer, AIDS, and many other life taking illnesses. We must be good care takers as God intended of not only ourselves but of all the life of Earth which God gave us charge of, that means everything, not just humans.
I completely agree. We should take care of the earth but not go so far as to put it before other people. I also did a research paper on "Global warming" not long ago. Even a lot of people who study up on the topic only see biased information pointing towards the earth inevitable destruction by humans. When I did the paper, it was very hard to find good sources that presented the topic in an unbiased matter. If you look hard there is good information out there and surprisingly enough, the good information doesn't point towards climate change as being human caused. God's creation that we call earth was created to be adapting like we are but it also wasn't created to be around forever unlike we are, so I am more interested in people than I am this planet I call home for now.
I won't repeat the comment made by others, that without the earth there would be no humans. That's pretty obvious.
I do wonder where you got the bizarre idea that protecting the earth and protecting humans are mutually exclusive concepts. One can, and should, do both.
If you are so concerned about the Creator, shouldn't you be concerned with doing your part to preserve that which He created?
If God isn't going to save the planet, someone has to.
@RazorBladeParade@xanga - I think we are forgetting the Grace of God bcoz of which are existing in the first place..
I m not saying that we should live carelessly....there are some things you can do like not littering every where and small things as part of our life....
But all this would not happen if each one responded to God's call personally...and thats the primary thing....Listen to what the Holy Spirit is calling you for....For each one it might be different.
But when we start to obey i think the creation will take care of itself.
I think thats how God has designed...He created everything for Man...and our Faithfulness is related to the well being of our creation too.
I agree with you lol. The Green Generation is pretty much here and coming, and I guess it'll pass eventually. It's great to find people being a lot less careless about our environment and doing a lot of wise things for our planet. I just wish we'd do better things for ourselves and other people instead. ><
Why must we worship the earth instead of worshiping he God who created this beautiful earth that we live in?
I think you got it right here.
@DA_iLLEST_DOMiNiCANitA@xanga - Any discussion on climate science is bound to degenerate into a battle of links, but here goes: http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2006/04/end-of-our-epoch-all-in-good-time-2.html. The links therein might be edifying.
Your author, Monte Hieb, is a coal mining engineer, not a climate scientist. Given his employment, he just *might* have an agenda other than good science.
Not to mention, his argument makes no sense - total greenhouse gases are not necessarily as much the issue so much as the amount of change the system can absorb. If a scale is perfectly balanced - one ton on one side, one ton on the other, a feather on either side will tip it over.
Moreover, let me join the chorus of people pointing out that concern for one issue need not preclude action on another. Millions of people die from preventable disease and malnutrition every year. Those numbers could become much worse as climate change has its effects on the biosphere in the years to come. Your concern for life could stand to be extended to those that have been born, too.
@tulipsinspring@xanga - Exactly! There's no law saying Christians can only help with one or the other.
It's not hard to live green and take care of people. Look at organizations like Tearfund. In their catalogue, "protecting the environment" is in their list of priorities right under "safeguarding the children" and "paying a fair price for skill and effort". David Kerrigan, General Director of BMS World Mission, said that "messing with the environment is messing with everything the poor need to survive." A lot of the people living in third-world countries are farmers. They can't afford to have their land ruined by our wasteful habits. There's also an interesting article on time.com about toilets in developing countries which highlights the terrible impact that an unclean environment has on human lives.
@Sirius_Fan_Girl@xanga - Climate Change is used not to "cover the bases" but to represent the complexity of the problem. The overall, global trend is warming - that does not mean everywhere will get warmer. Parts of the east coast of North America and much of Europe will likely get colder, due to how the mechanics of ocean currents are effected by melting ice and warming surface temperatures.
Warming climate also means some places will get drier (US mid-west) and some places will get wetter (parts of Asia, Southeast US). It's a science of averages, not uniform effects. None of it is very hard to understand if you do the reading.
Finally - and this is the biggest misconception about climate change - it isn't about saving the seals or tree frogs or what have you. The prime concern of the politicians and scientists who are advocating action is, in the end, how this will effect people: climate change models predict floods, desertification and drought which will kill great numbers of that unattractive, hairless ape called homo sapiens. And if that isn't something that Christians should be concerned about, I don't know what is.
I TOTALLY agree with you. You just voiced what I have been thinking for a very long time. Thankyou, and well done.
If governments were serious about global warming then they would blacktop roads with a different color that doesn't cause as much heat.