I would like to share comments regarding “Why climate change requires a spiritual rebirth””:
People have a responsibility to be good stewards of God’s creation. Leaders acting together to create a more sustainable environment is great on the surface, but my concern grows with the underlying motives:
• “Our real foe—the environmental danger to our planet”?
God created everything, which includes carbon dioxide (essential for organic/plant life) and other gases. With all due respect, our real foe is the devil and everything that stands in conflict with God. Climate changes started long before use of fossil fuels. Tornados, hurricanes, and flooding won’t stop. Noah saw climate change. The disciples witnessed God’s power to calm storms. Who is control?
• “Instead of new aircraft carriers and faster bombers …”?
We could argue all day about government expenditures. There are programs giving benefits to noncitizens or people who choose not to work (unbiblical), and pointless research projects. The Chinese, Russians and our other “foes” will welcome it. Starving children don’t need a solar panel. They need food. Our government pays farmers not to grow crops.
• “People of faith must act swiftly …”?
A vague statement, where leaders in Paris are talking about spending hundreds of billions to change a climate but at the same time balance poverty, food production and sustain all these efforts ’til kingdom come. People of faith should act swiftly to ask more questions of our leaders and scientists and not just assume our leaders are seeking God’s wisdom and discernment. Blind faith will lead us anywhere, not necessarily towards God’s will.
Carl Beard
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