Extreme Enviro Problems v. Enviro Extremism, Part II
So various strands of environmentalism, whether against or within Church teachings, do NOT determine whether extreme environmental problems are happening. Hatred for “cap & trade” and fear of...
View ArticleSolutions: the Little Way of Environmental Healing
There have been point source environmental problems and those that involve only one set of chemicals (that have alternatives) that are easy to solve, and only require the government to regulate those...
View ArticleSolutions: Cap and Trade bad, Fee and Dividend good
Just finished Chapter 9 of STORMS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN — James Hansen’s (top climate scientist at NASA) book about global warming written for laypersons. I highly recommend it to all. Chapter 9 is...
View ArticleThe new Senate Climate Bill fails in many ways
I’ve just discussed how cap and trade, which is at the heart of the Senate’s new American Power Act bill, will fail to reduce greenhouse gases fast enough to avert serious harms, possibility even...
View Article“Save the Trees & Kill the Children”– what?
Heard a song on the Christian station the other day — I usually listen to the old folks Protestant Christian station with the old hymnal songs, but they had some talking going on, so I switched to the...
View ArticleHow Sinful Are Environmental Harms?
In the discussion in my last post, the topic came up about how sinful environmental harms are compared to other sins. I’m no moral theologian, so these are only my poor assessments. I would say that...
View ArticleBeyond Gaia….the Medea Hypothesis
Just in case you were afraid to become an environmentalist out of fear of becoming an earth-worshiping pagan — just turning off one light not in use might do a presto-chango on a person, according to...
View ArticleRed herrings, strawmen, and fake Catholic environmentalism
I’ve been looking at some supposedly Catholic environmentalist programs and posts (I may mention specific ones later), and it is interesting most of their time is spent knocking environmentalism and...
View ArticleIt’s World View That’s the Problem, and other things…
I’ve had Catholic friends ask me “Do you worship the environment or do you worship God?” And tell me jokes ending with a punch-line of ”the environment IS her religion.” I think the problem for many...
View ArticleIt’s Not Just World View That’s the Problem
I’ve been a longtime fan of ClimateArk.org for its gathering of news stories on climate change. I also love the implicit reference of its title to Noah and the Ark, with a little image of these in its...
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