Re: [asa] Environmental Alarmists Have It Backwards

At 05:07 PM 4/25/2007, Don Nield wrote:
>Janice will not get an answer from me for the
>simple reason that my post said nothing about
>"murder" the earth and her question is a way off beam.
>Don

@ Really? Maybe you aren't aware that the list
of names you cite includes a real who's who of
gaia/animal rights activists.
http://www.acton.org/publicat/randl/print_review.php?id=379

More: Gaia scientist James Lovelock predicts
planetary wipe-out. Mr Lovelock adopted the name
Gaia, the Greek mother Earth goddess, in the
1960s to apply to his then revolutionary theory
that the Earth functions as a single,
self-sustaining organism. .." Wednesday, November
29, 2006 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1799843.htm

".. there is scientist James Lovelock's warning
of permanent devastation .....when the heads of
environmental organizations are for cars (as well
as bikes and trains, admittedly), and they
justify the construction of parking garages as
long as they have "green" features, we see a
"disconnect from reality" or intellectual
dishonesty. A call to action would involve
reinventing environmentalism. In truth, it is up
to everyone to get active and stop murdering the
Earth's biosphere. ..As folksinger U. Utah
Phillips says, "The Earth is not dying. It is
being killed. And those killing the Earth have
names and addresses.
..."
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=58&Itemid=33

Murdering Gaia
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

This is depressing. <http://tinyurl.com/3rfse>The
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Report
concludes that human activity is “irreversibly”
destroying crucial life support systems on our
planet...this is serious; we’re murdering Gaia.
http://goyaboy.org/blog/?m=200503

~ Janice ...Sunday, July 02, 2006 "If Only
Mustachiod ..." http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/search?q=gaia

>Janice Matchett wrote:
>
>>*
>>For those interested, my post is here: *
>>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1823164/posts?page=22#22
>>
>>*Environmental Alarmists Have It Backwards
>>*April 25, 2007 *
>>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1823164/posts** ** [refresh browser]
>>
>>*~ Janice .. *who wonders if she will ever get
>>an answer to her question of yesterday, to wit:
>>*Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:14:44 To: Don Nield
>>- *(or George Murphy, et.al.) *From: Janice
>>Matchett - Subject: Re: [asa] a thought for
>>earth day (tomorrow) Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
>>
>>*@ *Do I correctly understand you and those you
>>admire to be saying that we can "murder" the
>>earth? Do we also "murder" animals rather than "kill" them?
>>
>>~ Janice ... http://www.onecosmos.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>>At 05:32 PM 4/23/2007, Don Nield wrote:
>>
>>>To supplement what Ted and George have said, I
>>>mention a very useful book that I have
>>>reviewed in the latest issue of PSCF. Two
>>>extracts (unedited) from my review follow. I
>>>will be happy to send my full review privately on request.
>>>*********************************
>>>
>>>ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP: Critical
>>>Perspectives- Past and Present, by R. J. Berry
>>>(ed.), New York, NY ,T & T Clark
>>>International, 2006, 338 pages, index. Paperback; $49.50, ISBN 0567030180
>>>
>>>This book contains 26 essays and an
>>>introduction by Berry, who is a Professor
>>>Emeritus of Genetics at University College,
>>>London. The core essays are updates of papers,
>>>from a 2000 conference to explore “the
>>>Christian approach to the environment” at
>>>Windsor Castle organized by the John Ray
>>>Initiative, by Robin Attfield (philosopher),
>>>Murray Rae (theologian), Calvin DeWitt
>>>(environmental biologist) and James Lovelock
>>>(biogeochemist). These are supplemented by
>>>classical expositions/criticisms by Richard
>>>Bauckham, John Black, Anne Clifford, René
>>>Dubos, Douglas Hall, Peter Harrison, Ruth
>>>Page, Clare Palmer, Larry Rasmussen, Paul
>>>Santmire, Lisa Sideris, Joseph Sittler, and
>>>John Zizioulas, plus papers written especially
>>>for this collection by Elving Anderson and
>>>Bruce Reichenbach, Susan Bratton, Martin
>>>Holdgate, John Houghton, Michael Northcott,
>>>Derek Osborn and Chris Southgate, plus
>>>previously unpublished lectures by Chris Patten and Crispin Tickell.
>>>
>>>************************************
>>>
>>>Santmire contrasts the creation theology in
>>>the priestly and Yahwist stories, and then
>>>that in the Book of Job. He says that the
>>>Yahwist story, with its small-scale agrarian
>>>setting, exemplifies what sensitive care for
>>>the earth can mean. In this theological drama
>>>the land is a character in its own right. The
>>>human’s relationship to the animals is
>>>depicted in terms of tangible solidarity
>>>rather than intervention. Santmire notes that
>>>in the Bible there is no doctrine of ‘cosmic
>>>fall’. The soil remains innocent; the divine
>>>curse rests on it because of the disobedience
>>>of humans and because of the fruits of
>>>violence that grow from that disobedience. The
>>>promise is that, in Christ, with the deep
>>>human fault healed and the curse therefore
>>>removed, we humans can begin to live in Eden
>>>again. In contrast, in Job we are led into the
>>>experience of a wilderness. We see noble wild
>>>creatures nurtured by God, celebrated
>>>precisely because they resist human
>>>domestication. No longer is conquering and
>>>controlling nature part of the equation for
>>>discerning human dignity. We have a complex
>>>and rich biblical theology of partnership
>>>between God, humans and all other creatures.
>>>*************************************
>>>
>>>Don Nield
>>
>>
>
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