People debate back and forth on climate change. The scientists of today pretty much say yes, the climate is changing. Many people don't believe it, they say it's a cycle...........well either way things are changing right now. So does it really matter if it's a natural phenomena or caused by man. Fact is mankind is responsible for polluting the planet and it affects the wildlife around us as well as the Oceans and lakes and rivers. The land itself is toxic in many places in the world and because of man and our habits we can account for a great deal of damage. We can also fix that if we care to.Go back to calmer methods and ways.
I have no idea if the rise of the lakes and the oceans is because man is polluting the atmosphere, the water and land, all contributing to the melting of polar ice. Or making holes in the Ozone layers. Or do Ice ages come and go. Does it really matter? The fact is we can change a great deal by our behavior. One side effect that I like is that new things come to light as land comes back into view. Archaeology finds many answers to our past because of this.
My own belief is Biblical. I believe that God created the Heavens and the earth. I believe in Genesis and I think that it is vague enough to allow for much of what science also believes. How old is the earth. What happened to dinosaurs. What happened to the earth during creation. I believe it can all be explained. I don't know how old the earth is and neither does anyone else. Science can never prove one way or other because as new things are found what is believed is changed. Every new thing that man discovers changes what is already known. God made all creatures in its time, he made them male and female and allowed them to breed. One thing we also know is He gave them the ability to change, to adapt and to evolve. So yes I believe in evolution (adaption) but a cat will never be a dog and a horse will never be a goat. Within those species though there is room for change and adaption. Man has proven that unintentionally by selective breeding.
I believe that when God destroyed the earth in a gigantic flood it caused the continental drift. We are told that the only survivors were Noah and all who sailed with him. Well, maybe maybe not. One thing to know about the Bible is that it doesn't go into too much detail because the story in the Old Testament describes the Fall and Redemption of man........thus the old Testament follows the line of Christ from Adam to the Saviour. SO Noah being the forefather of Christ is the story we know. Were there other people I don't know, maybe. Doesn't matter to me..........I do know that the Bible also tells us that beings came down from Heaven and mated with people.Read about the Nephalim and what happened to the world back then. There were many cross breeds at that time that were designed to ultimately destroy Christ's line and stop His coming. As they would be sterile.Read Roman, Norse and Greek myths. God took care of that with the flood. So was that an ice age? I don't know. Was there an ice age before that in the forming of the world as we know it, probably. God made the beasts and birds and fish long before man came along. The world was at one time a perfect environment where it didn't rain but a mist would come down and water the earth. Climate change certainly happened after the fall of Adam. Its probably changed many times since.
Did dinosaurs roam in the time of man? Who knows, certainly Behemoths are mentioned. What happened to them? probably climate change, not being able to adapt quickly enough or else the asteroids or the flood. None of that matters, my point is that the climate has changed many times, sometimes quicker than others. Man is able to adapt. He has done so since Eden. He was a cave dweller at times, he changed physically and mentally but was always a man. He was never a Monkey. Cave men were not stupid either.
So what to do about climate change. Here on the Great Lakes the water levels rise and fall. I have seen it since coming here in 1971. A time when the water was so far out the poor people had to dock their boats far out from the beaches (I say with sarcasm) now the water is so high its destroying stuff. Man does not seem to learn. You can buy the beautiful property along shorelines but nature will do as she wants. Man is a selfish and greedy beast. We have caused more damage to the earth than any act of nature. The forest fires, land slides, floods so much preventable. We change the course of rivers, we build dams. We pollute. We kill off whole species of animals and God had created everything to work together. One species relies on another. Interrupt the chain of life and we have no idea the damage we do.
When man was created he was made a vegetarian. When he left Eden God Himself killed the first animal to clothe them and the animals were given the instinct to fear man. Mans life was limited. Hmmmmm wonder if eating flesh had something to do with that because God now allowed it and mans life span was lessened. An ideal world would be no eaters of flesh once more, all would live in peace and harmony. God's promise is that some day that will be so again. The Lion will lay down with the Lamb.
So climate change or no climate change the fact remains that man can and should protect the environment in any way we can. I remember when London smog was a phenomena brought about by industry and home use of coal. When coke and smokeless fuels came we no longer had to go out with our faces covered so as not to breath in the pollution. In London also they cleaned up and sand blasted all the buildings over a period of time to remove all the pollutants, the blackness from the coal the buildings became white again.
Where I lived in Houghton Regis we had a cement works. Two chimneys put out dust from the cement. It covered the hedges and polluted the air. Everything surrounding the plant had a white layer upon it. When the wind changed we would rush out and bring in the laundry from the lines before it too was covered in a layer of chalk dust. Now its gone and everything is green again. It can be done. The problem is mans greed.
The oil companies, the pharmaceutical industries, the cars the aircraft and all that we do has something to do with the climate. So believe in climate change or not, it doesn't matter. We need to change our ways of life and of thinking. We can all pick up garbage when we go out. Don't think of it as someone else's mess it is our mess our problem. We need to accept that we can make a difference and just because not everyone will does not let us off the hook. If not ME then who? Pick it up.
There are many things we won't change. We need the cars and aircraft but society can be responsible and over the years do things in a better way. We can stop over fishing, we can stop polluting, we can stop over eating meat and go to a better diet using more plants than animals.
Friends not food.
The fact is that we spend more on feeding cattle etc that only a few can afford to eat, where as if that land went to growing crops not only would it be a kinder world it would also be cleaner. Cows and sheep and pigs etc would not become extinct if we no longer ate them, they could live a natural life in preserved land until they too adapted to change as all beasts do in the end. We can plant trees. We can do away with plastic and other things that do not break down in the land fills that pollute our ground water. They may have been a great invention at one time but now we know better. It will take time but we can do it. Meanwhile oceans rise and fall, man can argue if its natural or not. Lets just DO SOMETHING. No one has to believe as I do, no one has to believe in God or climate change you can call me bonkers if you like but......what rational human being would not want to leave the world a better place?????????
