{"id":1761,"date":"2013-09-28T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/09\/climate-change-has-become-a-religion.html"},"modified":"2013-09-28T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T17:53:00","slug":"climate-change-has-become-a-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/09\/climate-change-has-become-a-religion.html","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change has become a religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Man will worship something. \u00a0And in lieu of traditional religious beliefs, he can come up with some doozies. \u00a0Take climate change. \u00a0I have no doubt that Industrialization has not been healthy for the environment. \u00a0Or for humans. \u00a0The lesson being that just because we can do something doesn\u2019t mean we should. \u00a0Also, don\u2019t put blind faith in the latest lab coat saying the new invention will end death and align the planets. \u00a0Even if it does, the paybacks could be a witch with a \u2018b\u2019. <\/p>\n

But those aren\u2019t the lessons we want to learn. \u00a0In fact, we ignore those as we move the power of science and technology away from factories and industry to re-imagining the human person and plugging human existence into a digital socket. \u00a0The lesson instead is \u2018how can we change Western Civilization and use this as the latest in many post-Cold War scare tactics to keep the sheep in the circle?\u2019.<\/p>\n

Now in this story<\/a>, and this story<\/a>, we have two different perspectives, based on the ideologies involved. \u00a0Behind the \u2018we\u2019re going to freaking die\u2019! hysteria is the Liberal revolution. \u00a0So CNN has a story in which the UN has all but proven MMGW is a fact that is going to doom the world unless the last vestiges of the Christian West tear down their livelihoods and let the rest of the world catch up. \u00a0Oh, and we have to vote for liberal Democrats and embrace socialist style control of our lives.<\/p>\n

Fox, on the other hand, represents that skeptical notion that industrial progress couldn\u2019t have caused anything bad, after all look at the billions we\u2019ve made and we all have air conditioning and the latest app that\u2019s helping to make more millionaires and billionaires. \u00a0Climate Change? \u00a0Hardly.<\/p>\n

Me? \u00a0I figure, again, that the bold and blind leap humanity took with industrialization was like a giant party from which we are now beginning to wake with quite the hangover. \u00a0The world became a giant prostitute to be, well you know, and now we\u2019re paying the bill in money and disease control. \u00a0I seriously doubt the decision to wrench people from living within the natural world and setting artificial contaminants and cancer causing pollution between us and nature was a brilliant move, no matter how nice our big screen TVs look.<\/p>\n

But with that said, I seriously doubt that it\u2019s all \u2018we\u2019re going to die!\u2019. \u00a0My guess is, we\u2019re dying already. \u00a0But not in the \u2018vote Democrat or the Polar Bears don\u2019t have a chance\u2019 sense. \u00a0I\u2019m \u00a0especially skeptical because of the obvious twisting and manipulating of data and evidence that we see. \u00a0So things like Hurricane Sandy are pointed to, even though such hurricanes have happened in the past. \u00a0And yet the fact that we were supposed to have season after season filled with hurricane Sandies is not mentioned at all, even though that was the prediction fifteen years ago based on MMGW.<\/p>\n

Same with eroded shorelines. \u00a0Those seafront metropolises were supposed to have been submerged by now, according to a plea by scientists in the late 90s. \u00a0If we didn\u2019t get radical, it would happen in ten years! \u00a0Well, they\u2019re still there. \u00a0So are polar bears. \u00a0Plus, while parts of the world have been hotter, others have been mild. \u00a0In our part of the world, it was a rather mild and wet summer, but nothing stunning either way.<\/p>\n

Of course that\u2019s when it gets crazy, and we\u2019re told it doesn\u2019t count because it\u2019s weather, even though they appeal to such weather based events to build their cases. \u00a0Whenever someone tells me that something is always never sometimes, I\u2019m suspicious. \u00a0When it goes from Global Warming to Global Climate Change to Global Climate Disruption back to Global Warming based on what is convenient for the argument, count me a skeptic.<\/p>\n

So climate change? \u00a0Yeah. \u00a0Always has happened. \u00a0Blank check to science and technology and invention? \u00a0Bad idea. \u00a0Just because we can doesn\u2019t always mean we should. \u00a0But humans are a pox upon the world and only by accepting some \u2013 ahem \u2013 political and social reconstructing of society can we save the world from blowing up? \u00a0Sorry. \u00a0Fool me once. \u00a0Fool me for twenty years? \u00a0You get the picture.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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