Will Climate Change Destroy the World?

         As I was growing up in my little Baptist church certain souls would become agitated at current events and insist that these were signs of the end of history and the second coming. Usually the panic was related to events in the Middle East. The six-day war in 1967 was proof we were on the doorstep of Armageddon. In 1970 Hal Lindsey wrote a book entitled the Late, Great Planet Earth. It was a collection of evidences that the return of Christ was imminent. It sold 15 million copies. We Christians were a bit embarrassed when these terrifying prophesies did not materialize.

I thought I had left that world as I moved out into the wider society both religiously and educationally but low and behold it returned. Not from Baptists but from the environmental movement. Green prophets of doom warned daily that the sky was falling, that the end was imminent, and that climate change would destroy life as we know it.

Don’t think this is religious? A group of 50 religious leaders gathered together for a ceremony of “climate repentance.”

An organization called C40 Cities has connected the mayors of a hundred cities worldwide to seek what they call climate justice. And just exactly what does climate justice call for? Within the next seven years people are to completely eliminate meat from their diet, completely eliminate dairy, completely eliminate private automobiles, and allow people one short airplane flight every three years.

You will be glad to know that in order to save the planet the government of Ireland has just announced their intention to kill 200,000 of their cattle.

And as always numerous groups have formed to pursue the goal of reducing or completely eliminating the human population of planet earth.

Hal Lindsey never got close to being this crazy.

Never mind that far more people are killed by cold temperatures than warm.

Never mind that the earth has had many warm periods, some much warmer than today.

Never mind that fossil fuels and the technological revolution have done more to pull people out of poverty than anything else in history.

Never mind that fossil fuels and the technological revolution have saved more lives than anything in history.

Never mind that fossil fuels and the technological revolution have given us the best and most enjoyable lifestyles of anyone in history.

Never mind that there is no scientific proof whatsoever that we have more extreme weather events now than we have ever had.

Never mind that even if we did nothing about climate change we would have ample technological and economic solutions to any problems it may present. Bjorn Lomborg has reasonably calculated that we would need only 2% of future GNP to correct climate change problems.

When I was a college student we were warned that overpopulation would end the world as we know it. Then it was a hole in the ozone layer. Then acid rain. Then global cooling. And on and on. The Chicken Littles were never right. And they are wrong again now.

One thing my Baptist brethren were right about. Jesus will return. People should stop wringing their hands over climate change and get ready for His appearing. That’s an event worth concentrating one’s mind upon.

Thanks for listening. God bless you.

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/08/24/supernatural_warnings_come_to_california_975123.html

https://nypost.com/2023/08/22/climate-alarmism-over-heat-waves-fires-drives-false-solutions/

The 50 religious leaders who took part in a climate repentance ceremony: https://climaterepentance.com/participants/

C40 Cities Website: https://www.c40.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwl8anBhCFARIsAKbbpyQzpdre-DEFpiinqZAQpBTbV3iYtVJGbPLYrslGTSV_zmOyspQPF1caAq9lEALw_wcB