"Pope Francis Links"
"Pope Francis Links"
"Plutocracy Triumphant"
Cartoon Compendium
"Politics And Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"
Dear Fred,
"Politics And Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"
Thanks for your email.
In Christianity, "direction" is everything.
There is a wonderful passage in one of George MacDonald's "Curdie books" which portrays one individual on a lofty perch and another "in the depths." http://archive.org/stream/theprincessandcu00709gut/prcur10.txt
However, the person "on high" just made a decision that obligates inevitable moral collapse whereas the other fellow just made a decision to depart the netherworld embarking a long slog to glory.
Whether or not environmental havoc proves to be true, "best knowledge" obliges us to act as if fouling of our atmosphere will wreak havoc.
Unless we change soon (and significantly), it is likely that sometime next century, a 20 foot sea level rise will obliterate the beach you were recently admiring - and all other ocean beaches along with it.
My wife and I own a beach lot on the north coast of the Yucatan and for a decade we have watched it erode as the sea level rises.
North Beach on Isla Mujeres has been devastated in the last decade.
The United States military is currently preparing for unprecedented demographic dislocation - and consequent social and political upheaval - caused by the rising sea. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/10/13/climate-change-threatens-national-security-pentagon-says/ /// http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/us-military-forges-ahead-with-plans-to-combat-climate-change/
Sure, there will be "adjustment" -- we humans are nearly as tenacious as cockroaches -- but, no matter how it's sliced, the picture is not pretty.
Admittedly the elimination of every ocean beach during the lifetime of our grandchildren (or great grandchildren at the latest) is not attributable to "filth," at least not in the traditional sense.
However, the destruction of every beach on the planet is a near-term catastrophe-in-the-making caused by our collective treatment of the atmosphere as an open, unregulated sewer.
Humankind's wishful thinking that we will effortlessly dodge this bullet is quite remarkable.
Pax tecum
Alan
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Fred Owens <froghospital911@gmail.com> wrote:
Pope Francis: Humans Are Turning the Earth Into an "Immense Pile of Filth"
This is totally not true. The earth is quite beautiful. i was just at the beach -- it looked pretty good to me. Pope Francis is welcome to his subjective judgment -- maybe it looks like crap to him. But to me, our earth is close to heaven ...... with a few sore spots, of course.
No comments:
Post a Comment