Re: [asa] Teaching ID and teaching that Gobal Warming is not real

Rich Blinne wrote:
> The professor for my MBA-level accounting class first words were:
>
>> If you remember nothing else, remember this: unknown costs are NOT zero.
>
> We need to make sure that the GHG levels are such that we can predict
> the costs and so be able to budget adaptation. We are rapidly
> approaching the red-line where we don't know whether we will blow the
> engine. As such, we need to find the most effective means of doing so.
> Interestingly, what I haven't seen much of is a call by Christians for
> us to voluntarily act NOT in our economic self interest. When
> secularists scratch their heads and wonder "what is the matter with
> Kansas", they don't realize that Christians can and do act in manner
> that is not purely driven by self-interest. We were asked to sacrifice
> -- and some paid the ultimate sacrifice -- for the global war on
> terror and we responded in 2004. We saw cynical power manipulation in
> W ashington in 2006 and we stayed home or switched sides. From what I
> have seen by other "solutions" of climate change forcing
> self-interested parties to act responsibly probably won't be
> sufficient. There needs to be a call from Christians to Christians to
> sacrifice for the sake of our poorer brethren. We may be able to adapt
> because we have the resources but the poor who did not cause this mess
> will inevitably pay the price.
>
> Whenever such as above is proposed there is the inevitable cry of
> protest from the deniers who are more beholden to their p olitical
> philosophy than to Scripture. That cry is wearing thin on
> evangelicals, however. Note David Brooks' column yesterday with his
> Iowa post-mortem:
AMEN -- and let me get out of your bandwagon so I can get behind it and
push.

Hidden costs beyond this world exist as well, as we Christians ought to
be remembering. To use Philip Yancey's words (from memory), "you don't
get into heaven without a reference letter from the poor."

Lord have mercy on us. And may we learn to show the mercy to others
that we want for ourselves.

--Merv

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Received on Sat Jan 5 15:35:05 2008