Day: January 16, 2019

LOL. AOC to Scott Walker.

LOL. AOC speaks truth to stupid. Scott Walker is an idiot. https://t.co/61ccjwXjGo — Dale Lature (@dlature) January 16, 2019 Explaining tax rates before Reagan to 5th graders: “Imagine if you did chores for your grandma and she gave you $10. When you got home, your parents took $7 from you.” The students said: “That’s not fair!” Even 5th graders get Continue Reading

the secular view of a disposable world

A similar image is that Earth itself is disposable. According to some popular views, Earth will continue to deteriorate until its final destruction at the hands of God. Before that day of wrath, however, the faithful will be caught up in the rapture to escape the final conflagration. Earth itself is destined for destruction, as if God would slough off Continue Reading

Other-worldly religion

EARTH AS DISPOSABLE; HEAVEN-ISM AS SIN: One reason we have sinned against creation is that we have focused on an other-worldly religion to the detriment of Earth. We have relegated God to heaven and to a life after death, seeing this world merely as a place of pilgrimage or even just as a place for human mastery. This view may Continue Reading

Problem: Not realizing we’re the problem

My reaction: Part of our problem. We cant seem to grasp the meaning of “unprecedented”, which is a problem when we’re the problem. Each summer, CO2 declines as plants grow. In the winter, CO2 rises. Problem is, plants can’t keep up with humanity. In the next few months, CO2 will reach a new all-time high. Again. We’ve left the predictable Continue Reading

Ice Tells the Tale

“Global capitalism, neoliberal economics and the power structure depend upon things continuing as they are. The only real chance at mitigation of the impacts from climate change that are now entrenched in the climate system, would have been to abandon capitalism and enact something akin to the New Green Deal back when NASA’s James Hansen sounded the alarm about climate Continue Reading