We do not intend in this essay to dismiss completely the idea that the physical activity of mankind can have widespread negative effects on the physical world. It is well known that nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide released from the burning of hydrocarbons caused the phenomenon of acid rain, which took a heavy toll on forests, architecture, and so on. And that the use of certain pesticides has devastating effects on our key pollinators like bees and butterflies.
Neither, however, should anyone accept the idea that a harmless compound like carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere from a car tailpipe or a power plant is causing every serious weather disaster nowadays (catastrophic anthropogenic global warming, CAGW, per Jeff Sadow) – from hurricanes to ice storms to heat waves, etc. Especially when CO2 is a known plant fertilizer, and when there is new doubt about the ability of CO2 in the atmosphere to cause heating of the earth (the greenhouse gas effect).
What we do want to focus on is another kind of catastrophic man-made climate change that no one seems to be talking about – the kind that arises because of our rejection of God’s covenant of love. The Holy Prophet Moses warns us,
15 "But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. 16 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. 19 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. 20 "The LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and frustration, in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly, on account of the evil of your doings, because you have forsaken me. 21 The LORD will make the pestilence cleave to you until he has consumed you off the land which you are entering to take possession of it. 22 The LORD will smite you with consumption, and with fever, inflammation, and fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And the heavens over your head shall be brass, and the earth under you shall be iron. 24 The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed (Deuteronomy 28:15-24).
Examples of this abound in the Holy Scriptures. What was the cause of the Great Flood in Genesis or of the 3 ½ years of drought under the Holy Prophet Elijah? What will be the cause of the devastating plagues described in the Book of Revelation? Mankind’s rebellion against God.
And now that we are seeing more droughts, plagues, etc., we are doing everything we can NOT to acknowledge our flight from God as the cause, but trying instead to pin the blame on something else, anything else, but that. Thus, new cults like CAGW, for example, are created.
No institution is safe from this effort to diminish the All-Holy Trinity and enlarge some other deity (CAGW, LGBT rights, CRT, evolution, communism, and so on). The public schools are an essential part of the indoctrination effort; it is therefore imperative that conservatives/Christians push back against that with their own ideals. Daniel, the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church in Romania, gives us some guidance and encouragement and justification in this regard:
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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2022/09/garlington-the-other-kind-of-man-made-climate-change/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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