Tom Friedman's op-ed in the Times today.
The Senate’s failure to act [on cap and trade climate legislation] is a result of many factors, but one is that the climate-energy policy debate got disconnected from average people. We need less talk about “climate” and more about how conservation saves money, renewable energy creates jobs, restoring the gulf’s marshes sustains fishermen and preserving the rainforest helps poor people.
Conservative environmentalists have been saying this for a half-decade now.
Amen! I couldn't agree with you more! (So happy to see a recent post, Don!)
This is a great point. We need to make conservation and energy efficiency more practical and understanding. Climate Change is nebulous and that makes people afraid.
so you really don't think that we (humanity) are having an adverse affect on the environment? really? sure, maybe it isn't global warming, but how can you look at everything that mankind is doing and not think there will be an impact on the enviornment?
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@concerned, Not exactly sure how you've come to the conclusion from this site that we don't think people are having an effect on the environment. The question is how to address it. Our solution is love and redeem the sinner to get them to stop sinning, not threaten/cajole/tax/sue/regulate him to death, which is the typical progressive secular view. Where climate change is concerned, we simply realize that the "science isn't settled." Hope you'll stick around. Grace and peace, db
I have just discovered this site, in a search for "Christian Environmentalists" and I want to thank you for it. It is so good to see other believers who share my same thoughts instead of the unfortunately typical, "follow the Republican party because they claim Christianity for their own". It is great to see those of the same mind-set as myself and many friends who believe in not taking things at face value, but digging in and having some independent thought when it comes to politics and world around us!
I agree with you Concerned. We, as humans and as Christians, need to come to our senses and realize that our God was the one who came up with, "every action has an equal and opposite reaction". Our actions, or inaction for that matter, DO cause change. Human beings have been destroying the God-designed balance of the natural world. Cows were meant to graze, not to be fed grain. When they graze, they naturally fertilize the land, which in turn makes it able to produce the food that we need.
We as God's "called-out ones", are to be stewards of His great gifts and we need to take responsibility for our actions.
Perhaps this is one of the most interesting blogs that I have ever seen. Interesting article, Funny comment. Keep it up!