From here:
A Republican congressman hoping to chair the powerful House Energy Committee refers to the Bible and God on the issue of global warming.
Representative John Shimkus insists we shouldn’t concerned about the planet being destroyed because God promised Noah it wouldn’t happen again after the great flood.
Speaking before a House Energy Subcommittee on Energy and Environment hearing in March, 2009, Shimkus quoted Chapter 8, Verse 22 of the Book of Genesis.
He said: ‘As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.’
I have a lot of sympathy for Shimkus’ views: God is ultimately in control of what happens to the earth and man’s presumption of self determination is largely vanity. At the same time, although I think anthropological global warming is a hoax, I have enough of the hobbit in me to like green fields, woods, and meadows with wild flowers. Our world is filled with spectacular beauty: it is ours to enjoy, not despoil.
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If you expressed your view very strongly where I live, you’d be branded a liberal or socialist; regardless of any other positions you hold.
Just as well I don’t express my views very strongly, then.
Good point.
I totally agree that Christians (and everyone else) should be against greed, waste, and spoliation of the earth/world – yet I’m one who believes AGW is a politicians’s scam, and relies on politically-determined “science”. Yes, I believe in the middle ground, balance, seeing all sides – but that, of course, is the very thing that is totally out in our polarised times, verboten.
God never said he would not destroy the planet, just he wouldn’t flood it again. But out here in Oilberta there is a whole industry built on leftover dinosaur and jungle droppings. And that global warming was not man-made. Perhaps T-Rex flatulence was to blame.