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Postmodernville
Door No. 2
Extra Stuff
Door
No. 3
News Tidbits
Door No. 4
Mail: Love & Hate
Door No. 5
Goodies from Members
Door No. 6
Reruns:
Play it again, Kent
Door No. 7
(surely the number is significant)
Eschatology Patio
Door No. 8
Environmentalism
Watermelon
(green on the outside, but red on the inside)
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Environmentalism
In General
In a few words:
Throughout
Scripture, God repeatedly condemned His people, not for despoiling the
pristine wilderness, but for forsaking the poor and needy. Is this not His
same message to us today?
Chuck
Colson, writing
Breakpoint
Why I Am NOT an
"Environmentalist"
This little speech/article is from about 1996.
While it is dated in its examples, it gives you an idea of what Kent thinks
of environmental-ism
Kent B. True.
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Check out
the "Interfaith Stewardship Alliance"
Here is Christian-oriented group that makes sense regarding the environment.
It's up here at the head of the class because it's a breath of fresh air,
unpolluted by the stupidity of so-called evangelical environmentalists.
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What is worse: Nazis or Environmentalists?
Read
The Arithmetic of Environmentalist Devastation
and
The
Toxicity of Environmentalism
George Reisman, Ph.D., Pepperdine University
Professor Emeritus of Economics
Here is a little preview of the second article:
"The American people must be made aware of what environmentalism
actually stands for and of what they stand to lose, and have already lost,
as the result of its growing influence. They must be made aware of the
environmental movement's responsibility for the energy crisis and the
accompanying high price of oil and oil products . . . its consequent
responsibility for the enrichment of Arab sheiks at the expense of the
impoverishment of hundreds of millions of people around the world,
including many millions here in the United States. They must be made aware
of its responsibility for the vastly increased wealth, power, and
influence of terrorist governments in the Middle East, stemming from the
high price of oil it has caused, and for the resulting need to fight a war
in the region."
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Greenies - They Will Do Anything to Help People
Right? Maybe not. Maybe people - poor
people - don't matter to the greens.
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Environmentalism As Though People and Facts Really Mattered
(This is an excellent article from The Freeman
of May, 2001. It is very much to the point of the topic in this
section of The Clubhouse. Check it out.)
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Those Goofy
Environmentalists
This is actually an RH print re-run.
But it fits here as an account of how some professing Christians can get
goofy about environmentalism. Some criticized what say here about
DDT. I am not an expert on this by any means, but I leave my original comments about DDT here.
For more information about DDT and malaria, see the article
below.
DDT Use and Malaria
If you care to wade through this, you can learn a
lot about the use of DDT to control malaria. Environmentalists often
view human beings as a problem, even the most innocent of whom can be
sacrificed to their ideology. (This selection is used with the
permission of the Acton Institute.)
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Questioning
Environmentalist Orthodoxy
Here are some resources from The Wall Street
Journal that explain why goofy environmentalists are, in fact, goofy.
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Here at The Watermelon:
A Continuing
Collection of
Stupid Things
from Environmentalists.
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A lot of bad ideas start outside Christian thought -
that's a good thing - and finally filter into the Christian thought -
that's a bad thing. The "religion" of environmentalism is a
good example of one of these ideas. Environmentalism can easily
become "wacky." For examples:
"I think if we don't overthrow
capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I
think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under
socialism. I don't think it's possible under capitalism." Judi Bari, Earth
First!
"No matter if the science is all
phony, there are collateral environmental benefits ... [C]limate change
[provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the
world." Christine Stewart, Canadian Environment Minister.
"We must make this an insecure
and inhospitable place for capitalists, and their projects…[W]e must
reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down
existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of
tens of millions of acres of presently settled land." Dave Foreman,
"Confessions of an Eco Warrior," 1991.
"We've got to ride the
global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we
will be doing the right thing, in terms of economic policy and
environmental policy."
Timothy Wirth, Clinton Administration U.S. Under Secretary of State for
Global Affairs, and one of a number of politicians (including Barbara
Boxer, Barney Frank, Al Gore, John Kerry, Christopher Shays, and others)
who were designated as "Green Leadership for the '90s."
It has become apparent lately that many Christians
have decided to jump on the environmentalism bandwagon. Articles pointing
in this direction have begun to appear in Christian publications from the
Lookout to Christianity Today.
And as scandals have begun to reveal that many "scientists" were lying
about the human role in climate change, look for many 'Christian'
groups to ignore that and go on preaching "we must stop global warming"
as though it were the gospel. Of course, it is a 'gospel' of
sorts, but it is like those that the Apostle Paul called "another
gospel."
Below: Thousands Gather to Protest Global Warming
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Global Warming
In Particular
And the stupidity just
keeps on coming:
Australia Seeks Ways to Reduce Animal Gas Emissions
Friday, February 27, 2009
"But the last two years of global cooling have nearly erased
30 years of temperature increases. To the extent that global warming ever
existed, it is now officially over."
"Global warming freeze?" David Deming in the Washington Times, Wednesday,
December 10, 2008
Even down at the Huffington Post,
they know Al Gore is a nut.
Read it here.
by John Tomlinson | Flint Journal Columnist
For an excellent 'one stop' source on climate change,
visit
ICECAP.
(Internet Explorer required to view everything at this site.)
A Great Resource for this area is
The Heartland
Institute
Don't miss their
Global Warming Quiz
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These just in:
Polar Ice is NOT Melting
Read more
here.
and
The earth has been cooling recently.
Read about that here.
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Watch some quick refutations of
the idiocy of Al Gore
Part
One
Part
Two
Still
More
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From watching coverage of 'global warming' you might get
the idea that scientists generally agree that it is a problem that is
human-caused.
But here you can
find 31,000 scientists who disagree and have registered that
disagreement by signing a petition which reads:
We urge
the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that
was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar
proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the
environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the
health and welfare of mankind.
There is
no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide,
methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable
future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and
disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial
scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce
many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of
the Earth.
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'Re-lenting' on Carbon:
When 'Faith' is Blind and Facts Don't Matter
Kent B. True
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A Good Collection on Climate
from
The National Anxiety Center
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One Weatherman's Opinion on
Global Warming
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The Contest No One Has Entered
Ultimate Global Warming Challenge Ups
Prize Money to $125,000 for Proving Humans Cause Catastrophic Climate
Change
Washington, DC, September 25 ─ The Ultimate Global Warming Challenge
announced today that it raised to $125,000 the cash award to the first
person to prove in a scientific manner that human emissions of greenhouse
gases will cause catastrophic global climate change. (Ultimate
Global Warming Challenge)
"Surprisingly no one has entered the contest yet," said Steven Milloy,
founder and publisher of JunkScience.com and the sponsor of the Ultimate
Global Warming Challenge. "I'm surprised since Al Gore, the United Nations
and the mainstream media all seem to think that the notion of manmade
catastrophic global warming is a no-brainer," Milloy added.
The
Ultimate Global Warming Challenge was launched on Aug. 7, 2007 with the
popular and highly rated YouTube video entitled, "Can
You Save Al Gore?."
"It
appears that $100,000 is not enough to spur Al Gore and other climate
alarmists to submit their proofs that humans are causing global warming,"
explained Milloy.
"If
it's a matter of money, Al Gore and the alarmists should just come out and
tell us what sum it will cost the rest of us to see what proof they have."
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A
Collection of Global Warming Facts - and Political Connections
for those interested in facts
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The Big Chill
"During the past billion years, the Earth's climate has fluctuated between
warm periods - sometimes even completely ice-free - and cold periods, when
glaciers scoured the continents." So begins
this interesting article. It is not about "global warming," but
reading it and exercising even half your brain will show you that the
global warming hype of "environmentALism"
is pointless babble.
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The
Cold Truth about Global Warming
While you must dig deep, the truth is lurking out
there.
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So what about that rumor of global cooling?
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Mars and Pluto Climates Warming, Al Gore Scours for Extraterrestrial SUVs
Funny, yet the point is well-taken
Warming or Cooling?
The Media Can't Decide - But We're All Gonna' Die!
Scientists Now Agree That . . . Well, not exactly
Don't Expect the Press to Get It Right
This report shows how even the Discovery Channel
is not willing to discover the truth about "global warming."
Before you believe everything Al Gore and company say
about global warming, read -
"AL'S BIG ADVENTURE"
---THIS SUMMER'S HOTTEST HIT...
Speaking of Al Gore - and we really hate to do so
. . .
Here Al Gore's global-warming expertise is praised
by one of his loyal followers - and a few pertinent comments are in order.
Climate of Fear
Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting
scientists into silence.
BY RICHARD LINDZEN
There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
By Bob Carter
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