Will God Save Us From Climate Change? People of Faith Are Split

Najah P Tamargo

Minster Najah Tamargo USA

Indigenous peoples believe that WE ARE ALL stewards of the Earth. And I agree. This is a man-made situation, so it will take all of mankind to fix it. Prayers never hurt, but it will take more than that to rectify the situation.

Geoffrey C. Olive

No prayers have ever been proved to achieve what the religiously infected believe! When science or other human activities achieve something that religious believers pray for, they claim it is god’s action as if the doctors or other humans had nothing to do with it! Ignorance and stupidity at its worst!

Lionheart

I wonder if people referred to 1930’s to 1936 as Global Warming, which saw many heat records broken during those years? 🤔

Personally, I’m not convinced about Global Warming being man made. A Nobel Prize winner in Physics 2022, Dr. John Clauser, recently made a statement saying “I don’t believe there is a climate crisis” After speaking out against this manufactured crisis, he was denied his previously-approved speaking engagement at the International Monetary Fund. How surprising is that?😜

He’s not the only one that disagrees, Meteorologist, John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel, agrees that there is no significant man-made global warming.

I doubt any of the worlds man-made gods are going to interfere with any of the worlds man-made theories. 🤭

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Alan Meunier

1) If "God" has a "master plan" then prayers are fruitless and it is up to us.

2) If "God: exists he has given us the knowledge and the tools to combat climate change but not many are listening.

3) If "God" doesn't exist then it is all on us anyway.

Here in the "godless: Northeast the water has warmed to such a level this year that we now have skin eating and brain eating bacteria in the sound, lakes, and bays. It may be too late. I am a boater and I no longer dare swim in the ocean. That is where we are currently at. If you cannot see it then you are in denial.

Rev. Kev

This article asks: Will God Save Us From Climate Change?

Short answer: No.

Time for folks to stop kicking the can down the road or hoping someone or something else will make it all better and shoulder some serious responsibility. Humans screwed things up. It's up to humans to do something now to mitigate all (or at least most possible) of the environmental harm we've been inflicting on the only planet we can currently live on.

That's what we need to do.

But most likely what we won't do.

Too many people in pure denial. Others are too busy raking in wads of money to do any serious damage control. Still others don't want to face the sort of sacrifices of our current luxury lifestyles required to make actual, useful changes. For all of our technological achievements, I have come to realize we humans are not a very bright lot. As future generations will sadly face.

Catherine

A woman was sitting on the roof of her house during a flood. She prays to God asking for his help. Soon, men in a boat come by and ask to help her. She says "no", she already prayed to God for help.

The house sinks deeper. Someone else comes by asking if she needs help. She says "no", she already prayed to God and she's waiting for him to help her.

It's getting dark. Her feet nearly touch the water rising around her roof. A neighbor comes paddling by and asks if she needs help. She says "no" because she prayed and God is going to help her.

After the water has rose so high she's actually in the water now, she cries to God asking why he hasn't answered her prayers. She hears God's voice say, "I sent you help three times."

Rev. MichaelRS

Starting about the year 850 California had a drought that lasted over 200 years. After that it had several droughts that lasted over 50 years.

Today they moan and groan about a drought that last five or seven years since observable records were being kept starting around only about 1860.

27,000 years ago 2/3 of Britain was covered in ICE. In the centuries that followed the ice gave way until eventually the islands were more or less as we know them today.

What caused those droughts in California and what caused the ice to receive from Britain?

I'm really going to not get into that, but what I will tell you is what it was not and what it was not was man-made climate change. Unless you think the cooking and campfires from the few thousand people scattered around those two areas were causing it by their carbon emissions.

Nobody denies that there is climate change. The climate has always been changing. Sometimes slower sometimes faster.

We only think it is going much faster today because we have greater, more accurate resources to measure it and collect real-time data than they did over the last centuries or millennia. But that data is less than 200 years old and much of that, until about 100 or so years ago was still not very accurate.

And if a area got too hot or too cold or became uninhabitable because of rising or lowering sea levels, the tribe just moved until eventually, over the last few thousand years which is a drop in the bucket compared to the history of the Earth, they found areas that were more or less stable for habitation.

Anyway, God will neither save us nor condemn us through climate change. The climate will continue to change as it always has. We're just a more populous planet now with people wanting to live by the shores or in other areas that are most affected by climate change.

If we in the West meeting mostly Europe and the Americas stopped using every drop of fossil fuel from now going forward it would pretty much have zero effect on the rest of the planet because the planet is going to do what it is going to do and China and India and other developing countries pollute, for however much you think that affects the climate, far more than we in the west do

William Waugh

Yeah. You folks (most), just don't get it. Climate models and projection algorithms were not created by apes. They are highly, highly accurate. Does the planet get natural ups and downs? Yes. Does that let humans off the hook? No. Imagine. If you will, an earth sized terrarium on a superplanet that is maintained by the equivalent of a 12yr old. They never change the water and all the inhabitants just let thier carbon and carbon monoxide and methane pour back into the tank. Yeah its happening faster now. Has human population growth been out of control? Every human on the planet is a 98° furnace. And typically gives a pint or so of methane daily. And thats not counting the land beast industry required to feed them. Every manufacturing process produces heat. Yeah, god is going to save us. I think not.

Anisahoni

What a silly question. If such a god existed, sh/e has done a terrible job so far. I used to believe in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus and other mythological creatures.

Pastor Jim

Earth has been in a constant state of change since Earth was formed. If one is actually referring to a "climate emergency" they would be ignorant of the credible science that exists explaining otherwise. Carbon is an invisible gas that has nothing to do with controlling the ozone layer and even less to do with controlling climate control. The present state of political affairs regarding climate is a scam that has more to do with controlling the weak and mentally challenged who allow others to think and discern an effective interpretation of reality for themselves.

David Arthur Lewis

Nope, sorry. Your Invisible-Man-in-the-Sky is not going to save you. You are not going to "Fly Away With Jesus" to Glory Land. Heaven and Hell are not places you go to after you die. They exist right here, right now. "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand" not sometime in the future. Very few of us live in Heaven, though there are some; most humans reside in Hell. A Hell of our own making. Just ask any opioid addict.

Yes, we are responsible for the stewardship of our planet. We have failed in that responsibility. We have known for more than 50 years exactly what would happen if we continued burning fossil fuels, and now it is obvious even to the trumpiest of the Trumpites. Climate change is not a 'Chinese Hoax'. This is not part of a normal process. We fucked up, Bigly, and we are now going to pay the Piper.

So, if you're going to pray, include the 'mea culpa'.

John M. Endress

My faith requires that I be a good steward. I’ll do what I can but I’ll need assistance from many of the over seven billion other people who occupy this planet. For the foreseeable future, we need to work together to survive, or we’ll become another example of a fruit fly experiment.

Catherine

Scientists from a wide variety of backgrounds and having varied religious denominations managed to work together, as did Tesla being Serbian Eastern Orthodox and Einstein being a self-described agnostic.

https://bigthink.com/words-of-wisdom/tesla-4/

"Science and Religion are Compatible. Science and Dogma are Not."

Words of wisdom from Nikola Tesla: "There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact."

My hope is that more of us become less rigid and, like scientists, open to respectful, objective, purposeful discussion, that does not require involving personal beliefs.

I think discussing religious expectations specific to global climate change without being on the same page with basic physical understandings, makes informed discussion difficult.

First this, because I read some confusing posts about climate change and global warming:

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-difference-between-global-warming-and-climate-change

“Global warming” refers to the rise in global temperatures due mainly to the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. “Climate change” refers to the increasing changes in the measures of climate over a long period of time – including precipitation, temperature, and wind patterns."

And this, which explains in lay terms one aspect of global climate change that most of should be able to relate to:

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/understanding-arctic-polar-vortex

"When the polar vortex is especially strong, for example, the polar jet steam tends to stay farther north and to exhibit a more zonal flow, with less meandering. At the surface, this stable stratospheric state is often associated with an even colder than usual Arctic, and milder-than-usual weather in the mid-latitudes."

https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/articles/whats-name-global-warming-vs-climate-change

@Brien - Re: "We are different in that we recognize our part of it and are trying to correct ourselves. But others of the animal kingdom do not."

Do non-human animals drive or fly vehicles? Frack? Build oil rigs in delicately balanced seas?

I get that animals don't pick up their poop and do something with it. What is expected I can't imagine. Humans gather poop and send it elsewhere, without consideration of what happens when our collective poop arrives at its destination, be that in a body of water or land.

Something of an example: In Charles City County, Virginia, there was (is?) an active dump in the 1990s. Being an unusually poor county (at the time), an authority approved allowing another country to transport waste from overseas and dump it in CCC. There were running jokes about that authority who later realized he could not sell his own home to leave CCC. And righteously angry residents who were similarly trapped unless they could afford to live elsewhere after abandoning their home (an additional cost).

Yet, Charles City County is magically not on the NPL.

People who have not yet learned about criteria that must be met for the EPA to determine a superfund site, then look up superfund sitemaps, will likely be shocked.

It doesn't help to be overwhelmed or depressed, both of which invite apathy and resignation.

What does help is each of us improving our space and place in the world. Developing habits to consume less. Doing more with what we already have. Focusing on multi-functionality. Choosing function over aesthetics more often than not.

If enough of us do not come to this or a similar conclusion, we might as well wear blinders and blissfully hope for the best.

Geoffrey C. Olive

I would recommend anyone interested in this topic to read ANY geology text book or scientific literature written by geological scientists about the current Ice Age with its relatively short interglacial periods of relative warmer temperatures for which there is enormous amounts of evidence from tree rings to ice cores. We are currently in one of these periods! NB you will not find ANY references to a god, Jesus, holy ghost or supernatural beings! Believe what you like, religious fools, it doesn’t change scientific evidence!

Dr. Zerpersande, NSC

A few others should be polled as to their inclination to assist humans. Spiderman, Batman, Superman, The Flash and Richie Rich spring to mind. Or everyone just tell Santa to keep the two front teeth and fix the climate.

ServantOfJudgement

We fracture the ground we live on for oil. We build floating islands of plastic in the ocean. We strip mine Africa for toxic metals to save the climate. We burn chemical rail cars and fill the environment with filth and toxins. We dump excess chemicals into the water supply. We drench our crops with fungicides, pesticides and hydrocarbon fertilizers. We mandate the use of toxic compact fluorescent lights over incandescent lights. Our fields are salted with roundup and then we eat it. Our leaders each burn millions of pounds of jet fuel to discuss climate issues. Corporations have adopted consumerism as a philosophy. We wage senseless wars only to litter the battlefields with toxic metals and blood.

Why on earth would anyone think God would not let us reap what we sow when we seem content living in a pig sty? If anything, he'll use our behavior to judge us with, that's his style. We pollute the earth, we seem to want it that way, well, he'll let us have all we can stomach until we learn our lesson and pollute no more.

Catherine

@Daniel Gray

Would you say billions of people have no effect on all our environments?

Canadian Yankee

Are we talking about the God that supposedly drown the entire planet because some small evills were being done in the mediterainian area? Just imagine what that god will do to those who destroy his master piece for a few pieces of silver. I think he said the next time would be by fire, and we are on the way there now.

David Buck

Yes, the climate is changing, it has been changing for millenia and will continue to do so whether we are here or not. I think it is ridiculous to think that we can have any real shot at stopping climate change, so we should be spending our time and resources in mitigation strategies. Also, here in New Zealand we are responsible for about 1/10th of 1 percent (or 0.01% if you prefer) of global emissions. If the entire country disappeared overnight, it would make no measurable difference in the rate of climate change. I think we are idiots to radically alter our manner of farming, and lifestyle to try and reduce that further when China and India are building hundreds of coal-fired power plants. They go forward, while we bankrupt ourselves and destroy our economies, sacrificed on the altar of the new religion of Climate Change. How stupid are we?

Billy Heckstall

TAKE IS CHEAP It has always been a known fact, that prayer and faith, without action produces nothing!!! If God works through people? Then either God isn’t speaking, or people aren’t listening. I’ve often hear people talk about, what happened? Things use to be this way, or that. But, what they seems to always overlook, or forget. The truth is, it’s their turn to get active in this thing called life. The only thing that seems to have happened on this planet, is that the negative acting minority is dominating over the inactive majority. What this means is God’s people have gone to sleep. What’s needed is a revival of, and a renovation of, what it means to be sons and daughters of God. Singing in the choir, praying in church and shouting praises to the Father is not how Jesus handled these issues. Why. They might provide some momentary peace to an individual’s life or circumstances. That will rarely move a mountain without a bulldozer. Stop pretending you’re one of his disciples and fellow your Lord’s examples. Jesus! When he saw a wrong! Took action! Stop singing, stop praying in silence, and put songs, dance and prayer into Action!!! Physical presence, monetary funds, protesting and voting is God in action and a powerful example of Jesus disciples living his example. So… SAVE THE PLANET!!! BE JESUS IN ACTION!!! CARPE DIEM Means…NOW!!! God bless…

Mrknowitall

Anyone who believes that this is man-made is ignorant.....The sun heats the earth with more and less radioactive light at any given time. Any and all real scientists should be examining and researching on how we can better adapt to our current situation whatever that may be, mam made global warming is pseudoscience.

Gene Schenck

You created this mess peoples I am not you janitor or maid or servant of any kind ask my father for help and I think you will get the same results kiss my @#@. Jesus

Brien

Wow, just how ignorant are you? You spit out all kinds of useless info, then complain that we need to do something, then display all kinds of science that does nothing to fix anything. Do I agree with LH? Yes because LH thinks for himself. Even if we disagree on something, we can work it out because of things like common sense and mutual respect. You should try it, you might like it.

ServantOfJudgement

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I think the great thinkers of the world either spiritual or not must have a decent filter if only to check their own work at the minimum. I'd think they'd have to also feel comfortable with using the work of others by critiquing it first. I also feel they see the world through a specific lense with side blinders or better said, they eliminate/avoid as many distractions as possible. In this they miss the life we experience in ordter to pursue their passion.

For my part in this world I've always been interested in the various sciences used to explain the workings of the world but not content with reading alone. I must do it if it's possible for me to do it.

I'm an electrical engineer and also a mechanical engineer. I specialize in automation. I program the equipment that builds our day to day niceties. Dish washers, mufflers, water faucets, compact discs, typing paper, toilet paper, sweet potato pies, door trim, vehicle dashboards, gears, refrigerators, and so on. I can and do design systems from scratch and build it myself or manage a team to do the same. I was trained by an old tool and die maker to use milling machines, lathes and everything you would need to build a robotic system from scratch.

I'm a professor that teaches electrical theory and computer programming at a local college. They're night classes that don't pay very much but I love meeting people so it's worth the effort. Students seem to love my style and my classrooms are always full.

I'm an amateur mycologist. I can grow any mushroom from spores or clone them from the field. The exception is the most glorious morel mushroom, at least for now. I'm working on that one. I've got 4 genetic samples in my fridge where the mycelium is starting to run through some damp cardboard. Wish me luck!

I'm an amateur botanist. I enjoy growing carnivorous and other interesting plants from around the world. I love teaching kids about these strange plants and they're thrilled to learn, as kids always are. I have a modest vegetable garden where I keep and maintain heirloom seeds from year to year. I also experiment with my own hybrids and have developed bean, zucchini and cucumber seeds that are reliably tolerant to northern Ohio winters. When nutritious plants seed themselves, over winter and become weeds next spring, you know you nailed it.
I've written a program to simulate the lighting and ground temperature of any latitude on the planet for any time of the day and year. I can also make time pass at any rate I please. I'll be able to grow anything I want from anywhere in the world in a future greenhouse. My goal is an automated greenhouse capable growing vegetables that ripen in their naturally preserved state, like dried beans. One day I'll get there.

I raise my own livestock. My chickens are self replicating now. I have a nice system that I can protect a brooding hen from predators and other chickens. When I need more birds I pick a broody hen and let her do her thing. They are true free range and have as good a life as I can provide.
I'm a goat herder. You can laugh, most people do. I know it's a big favorite of many here. I chuckle every time someone here insults the authors of the bible. I'm like 'What the heck bro, I'm a goat herder'. I've created my own hybrid goat from three breeds. Took about 10 years. They are great milk producers, fairly meaty and are resistant to parasites and disease often found in warm humid climates like Ohio summers. They free range in the summer and I only need to feed them during winter months. They know my voice and call for me if they get into trouble. You can learn a lot about people by watching goats. I don't hunt, I feel no joy from killing animals. When I cull my own for the dinner table I do it with a heavy heart every time. I don't like it.

I'm a licensed Ham radio operator. I feel it's important to be able to communicate with others across the globe. With the troubled times we're all facing this is becoming more and more important.

I'm a musician, song writer and poet. I've got a band that loves to rock. My music is pink floydish I'm told. Could be I guess, it's just fun to me. I played with a bass player from Japan a couple weeks ago. He was here in the states with his American wife visiting. Isn't it nice we've got a back-up language we all can speak and understand when all other channels fail?

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Alexander Arends

We are the stewards of the earth. Not sure about climate change but if we were to control it, it would be replaced by some other disaster or epidemic., natural or manmade. We should also recognize that if climate change is a serious issue the entire world has to be in agreement and work together in order to make an impact.

Sherrell K Zitting

God is the doer of all things, climate or no, the politics and all of its issues, social issues, the pandemic, the economy, international relations, global religions, and all that is good or evil (Is: 45:7).

Nicholas J Page

Climate change has been going on for decades here in Britain I can remember knee high deep snow Huge floods Heatwaves etc and I have been saying it's all man made how else can anyone explain.All the pollution that goes up must come down.In 1987 we had a hurricane which knocked out power uprooted trees and so on first time a hurricane for us and I had to make a short dash to a barn to get our coal frightening really.So if that's not global warming what is.Another thing people are dying across the world 🌍 whose to say the earth will carry on when mankind has gone.

Catherine

@Rev. MichaelRS

The U.S. is second only to China in overall energy consumption, and places first worldwide in water consumption.

Some say that's because we have enough to waste. However, the U.S. is also one of the largest importers of water which kind of sounds like we really don't have water to waste.

As for climate change, is it really possible that a natural evolutionary process is not exacerbated by billions of people compared to millions long ago?

Austin B Beamer

No matter how one of Faith wants to change the climate or other circumstances concerning the plight of today's world... Man's inability to heed the Word of Instruction from Gods Holy Word, and his sinful wickedness will ultimately determine the climate. And bring forth painful consequences to his lack of Knowledge. Creation will obey its Creator. And if Creation is told to operate according to Man's Righteousness or lack of.... Look Out Man!

Keith Allen Steele Eash

Give God some credit. He created this world, he'll end it his way. We aren't going to blow ourselves up by creating a nuclear Holocaust. We can do that without the blast. No. In most faiths he created it and he'll end it. Alpha & Omega, beginning and end.

Ealdormon Piparskeggr Robinson

An article I read today about an undersea volcanic eruption in the Pacific, which both NASA and the European Space Agency conclude will add to warming of the atmosphere. The climate will change, so long as the planet has an atmosphere. Is Man part of the cause, I think yes, as we are fouling our nest with trash and other pollution.

https://www.newsbreak.com/@joe-herring-1723008/3107191904075-nasa-unprecedented-underwater-volcanic-eruption-likely-responsible-for-current-heat-waves

James Riggle-Johnson

Short answer… I don’t think so. God is probably looking at us and thinking “WTF is wrong with them? I can’t wait to see how they fix this. I’m gettin some popcorn.” God isn’t going to fix the climate. The earth will correct itself even if it means destroying most of humanity to do it. It’s been here for 4.5 billion years, and the last 100 that has caused damage is a drop in the bucket. God helps those who help themselves.

Daniel Gray

The short answer? no. This is cyclical (and yes I know some are going to say its man made but if that were the case then explain how the earth froze solid 6 times in its history according to ice cores and geological evidence and tree rings on petrified wood, or why even NASA is saying that all the planets are heating up and mankind is only on one that we know of) And even NASA has proved that when there are more sunspots there is more heat from the sun thus causing it to be hotter, the less sunspots the less heat causing it to be cooler https://www.weather.gov/fsd/sunspots

And even the so called Climate Change scientists (and less then 10% of these are actual climatologists) dont believe that climate change is man made https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1112950/ https://royalexaminer.com/the-hoax-of-climate-change/ https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/putting-the-con-in-consensus-not-only-is-there-no-97-per-cent-consensus-among-climate-scientists-many-misunderstand-core-issues

So all in all this is cyclical and all we can do is ride it out

Brien

Ok, just adding a bit more to think about. I believe that most agree the planet is changing. Where we part ways is assigning cause. I really hope to relieve some of the stress between us. First of all, pieces of what all of you offer are true. Let me try to string it together. Our planet is a living organism. Since life began on this world the planet has gone through cycles. Some of the natural cycles were benign, some were destructive. These cycles include universal cycles that we can't control. But all of these living cycles occurred beyond our control. Now, for the elephant in the room. ALL of the animals on this planet, (us included), have caused, and currently are doing damage to this world. All animals, everywhere. We are different in that we recognize our part of it and are trying to correct ourselves. But others of the animal kingdom do not. So, with or without our input, the planet cycle continues. We can't even predict the weather correctly, how are we going to predict the next cycle? Look, we all want clean air and blue skies. But we are at the mercy of nature, that every living thing participates in. We like to think that we are so much in control. The reality is we are a small ripple in this cycle. We don't know how long this cycle will last. We have NO CLUE how to control it. The best thing to do with our lives is to live well. We will either adapt to the changes, or we won't. But trying to assign blame does no good. Peace ✌️

Brien

I am sorry, this is a quick addendum. I left out the whole god thing. Since it is my belief that the notion of a magical supreme being is nothing more than a man made construct, I do not believe that man is smart enough to attempt any kind of control over a natural cycle on a planetary scale. Question asked and answered. Peace ✌️

Jennifer Gallozzi

Spot on ! Who would believe a crisis led by the likes of Carey( no science degree),Gates no degree and Notably Moderna a newer Co. Got its first vax out by Emergency use status.. shoots junk in the atmosphere to combat warming.. ,Soros off thinks HE'S God .manipulating currencies and buying elections worldwide, funding riots , burning down of cities ..The authoritarian Scwab and the WEF.. DID I forget Teen Greta.. Who would follow This team of evil? BTW studies show our carbon footprint is less than prehistoric, pre human days. Look up video of No Science degree Carey getting schooled at climate change judiciary hearing.... God's in charge....clean up your own stuff.

Veronica Deevers

This will explain everything https://justthinking.me/ep-124-a-biblical-theology-of-climate-change/

John R Liming

2 Peter, Chapter 3, Verse 10 -- "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

If God says it, then believe it.

The people of the world do not have to be worrying about what can be done about climate change ...climate change is only the beginning of sorrows for a corrupted world. What is needed is NOT fixes for climate change but a great world-wide revival and return to God.

Nothing else will do and nothing else will work.

Nicholas John Stricker

Funny how the elite make excuses about why they want you to comply about global warming while they fly polluting planes to "end" this problem.....our planet has always had temperature fluctuations.....China and India need to clean up their pollution which effects our planet.....better management of our resources would help immensely....

Deborah Lynn Strafuss

You know, this Earth we live on is a precious gift. It is full of healing herbs and plants, tied together and interconnected in magnificent and mysterious ways we are still learning about today, a jewel in space and a very unique and unusual place as far as we have yet encountered in our search for other livable planets. Our layer of atmosphere is but a hairline thin blue line when seen from space - yet it is the reason we are protected loved and alive on a planet thriving with life.

Whether you agree with global warming or feel we are going to hell in a handbasket and "God" will make it all right - here - just imagine you have a lovely home, beautifully decorated, and you go away and leave it in the hands of your children for a few years while you travel - having raised them and taught them you now trust them with this responsibility. When you return, you find your home a wreck. It has not been cared for, it has been misused and neglected and is in a very sorry, unlivable state. As a matter of fact, you will have to raze the interior completely, repair structural and mechanical damage, re-roof and redecorate. Are you happy? How will you treat your children - forgive them with no repercussion or consequences? Let them care for your home again? How could your children have prevented this terrible state of loss between them and their parents? Very simply, by taking care of what they were given to watch over. There is a parable about that in the bible - a very powerful one. We were definitely not charged to go out and plunder the earth because it's okay, god will make it all better....

Tobias Martin Ruiz

According to Genesis 2, man was FORMED, not created, and on the seventh day which God commanded that no work be done on. That being said it's obvious since God himself rested on the seventh day, that man was a formation which required no effort or it would be considered work. Everything else that lives, INCLUDING the planet (earth) itself is a creation of God. Who are we to say it's okay to destroy God's creations?

Henrietta L Johnson

We as Beleivers and Occupants of this earth, have a responsibility to care for it as if it personally belongs to us. Would you allow the House you live in to fall apart with you in it or do you get the necessary repairs done to maintain it? Whether you believe in GOD or not, you still have to live on this Earth until you die.

Warren Calvin Wall

I have to say that a great many people are equating climate change with the environmental damage being done. Climate change is a natural cycle. We are still exiting a global glaciation period. Of course the planet is warming. The amount of garbage and poisonous chemicals that we are dumping on the planet is what is damaging our environment. The amount of crap going into the oceans are obscene. The amount of chemicals dumped on the land and poisoning our water supplies is obscene. Industrial farming methods are obscene. We don't research on reducing carbon dioxide emissions. We need research, a LOT of research, on waste disposal! Recycling obviously isn't working. Recycling has simply become a cash cow scam. Almost 90% of the materials submitted for recycling is dumped instead of being recycled. We have technology to do damn near anything we want except taking out the garbage.

Susan A MacDonald

I am Native American and I believe it's both nature and a manmade crisis. If we do take care of this earth, it's elements and the inhabitants just who will? We cannot simply stand back and do nothing to help, to repair damage and to try and save this world for the future of those who come after us...we should honor what we have been given and take care of it...

P. Keith Benefiel

You can"believe in " climate change or not, but you WILL have to live through it.

Steven Wayne Anderson

Total fires and acres consumed is actually dropping worldwide.

Matthew Mastrogiovanni

When has "God" ever helped humanity? Psalm 94:1 O Lord, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! God is vain, jealous and vengeful. Not helpful or loving. Remember how he slept through WWII, when his "chosen" people were being murdered by the millions?

ServantOfJudgement

Funny you put it that way Kenneth. That's exactly what God calls it. Judgement is Strange Work to God. I doubt you read that in the bible but maybe. Perhaps it's true what the Bible says, that we all know God's law in our hearts, most ignore it, some hate it. Innocent people always lose when they put maniacs in charge. Sorry but that's life. Look now towards Ukraine. Look who's in charge of all these countries itching to fight. You and I have put leaders in a position to destroy us. You and I. 80 million will look like chump change.

Keith Allen Steele Eash

I will no longer comment since this group likes to censor free speech . Basically, anti Christian.