4-22-24 Earth Day
Proverbs and Quotations:
“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.” Shakespeare, King Lear I.iv.
My Comment:
Today is marked on my calendar as “Earth Day.”
I remember posting an appropriate proverb or quotation many years ago that seemed appropriate for my classes. I can’t find the quotation I used then. I’ll have to search for it in my lesson plans and use it another year. The Shakespeare quotation above will serve the purpose in the interim.
I have been lately reading several books about the subject of worldview. Worldviews are the underlying philosophies that frame our thinking and belief systems, systems most of us are unaware of.
“Earth Day” belongs to a worldview that is incompatible with a Christian or Biblical worldview.
Perhaps most who acknowledge “Earth Day” also think highly of environmentalists and believe in “climate change,” and think climate is affected by human activity. They are concerned about carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and think this is a harmful byproduct of human activity and cow flatulence. They are concerned about “carbon footprints,” and want everyone to cut back on eating red meats. Some even speak of eating bugs and owning nothing as if this were an admirable goal. They also believe in evolution and think there are too many humans on our planet. They also believe in the viability of electric cars but at the same time think we can power our electric grid using windmills and solar panels. All this is puerile nonsense, believed by those who failed to pay much attention in physics class.
Last year for more than a month the skies here were so darkened by smoke from Canadian wildfires that our tomato garden failed miserably to grow and bear fruit. To add insult to injury, we had too much rain after that so that other gardeners in our immediate area lost their vegetable crops due to rotting in the field.
I suspect the Canadian wildfires resulted from mismanagement of the forests, mismanagement that was likely based upon the mistaken whims of environmentalists whose ideas are not based on genuine science or proper forest management. It is obvious that such mismanagement resulted in releasing into our atmosphere far more pollutants than legitimate human activity normally would. The unusual amount of rain may have resulted from “climate engineering,” also “solar management,” evidence for which is plainly visible for those who make the effort to look up to the sky to see those lines drawn by very silent airplanes whose so-called “chemtrails” remain in the sky far longer than any exhaust seen from normal airplanes. This climate engineering is designed to reduce the amount of sunlight that reaches the surface of the earth to reduce global warming.
There are a number of Bible passages that may relate to these issues:
Revelation 11:18
18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
King James Version
Jeremiah 51:25
25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
King James Version
Matthew 24:22
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
King James Version
Mark 13:20
20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
King James Version
Ecclesiastes 1:4
4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
King James Version
2 Peter 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
King James Version
Be careful not to disdain what the Bible teaches. It is never safe to bet against the Bible!