Under God: Environmental apocalypse: fire and flood - Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
Russia is on fire, and Pakistan is under water. Scientific studies have not convinced the climate change-deniers to act to save the planet. Perhaps an imaginative game change is what is called for. "Global weirding" is one such imaginative breakthrough, but let's not rule out the fire and flood imagery of Armageddon, especially as apocalyptic imagery can well symbolize the mounting security threat nations face because of the social, political and economic chaos of accelerating climate change.
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This winter, I wrote "Snowmageddon a sign of global weirding" for "On Faith." I firmly believe we need to give up on the nice-sounding, gentle-seeming, bathing-suit wearing weather kind of language that "global warming" implies, and get to the weirdness of it all. In that post, I wrote about the "sin" of climate change deniers, digging out from under such weird, weird weather and still refusing to connect the dots on climate change.
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But what might really break through in terms of the popular imagination connecting fire and flood and mounting threat from world-wide chaos is biblical apocalyptic. These events can been seen as signs of a global environmental catastrophe of biblical proportions. Revelation 8: 12 tells of the "woes" to come at the apocalypse; the text sounds like it was taken from the weather report in western Russia where fires are devastating the country's wheat crop. When the first trump sounds, "there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up."
A fifth of Pakistan is under water, and floods are ravaging parts of Asia. Rampaging floods make their appearance in the apocalypse, pouring out death on the hapless inhabitants of the earth. "Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river." Rev. 12: 15
The 'world-ending' imagery of the earth burning up and snakes spewing water over the land is judgment for the sinful acts of humankind. Failure to act decisively to stop, and perhaps even, over time, reverse the worst effects of global weirding is sin, pure and simple. And the earth will exact revenge for this desecration. In fact, already is exacting such revenge.
The resulting chaos is a huge and potentially catastrophic security threat. It's positively apocalyptic.
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The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling! Hurry, Hurry, sign up for Cap and Trade, you get to permanently reduce your living standards, achieve nothing, but reduce your guilt planted into your mind by a group of Global Warming Fraudsters. As a bonus you are helping to fight the war against global Terror! Yeah I call this a good deal, where do I sign YOU up, Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite?
No wonder the AGW faithful are losing the propaganda war. Too bad their science also stinks.
Let;s not forget that Thistleswaite is a "Senior Fellow" at the Center for American Progress a far, far left propaganda outfit.
AlGore has admitted that 'fighting global warming is a means to push global government.
Thus, the support by Ctr for Am Prog. types for the world is ending scnario.
The rational among us won't fall for any Biblical propaganda. Many who ARE susceptible to apocalyptic nonsense (from sheer ignorance) are not ready to live by said nonsense in the here and now.
Susan Brooks Thistlewhaite, you are at best uninformed, at worst a traitor to the entire human species. The fires in Russia have nothing to do with Global Climate Warming Weirding Change, and everything to do with irresponsible land-use measures implemented over a century ago.
The last dying squawks of the Hot Earth Society are mighty and loud, but signify nothing at all.
The problem with selecting a few events is that there are other events to contrast them to: For instance, even s Russia burns Peruvian children are perishing from the extreme cold FOR the Fourth extreme Winter in a row.
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