In
the infancy of Earth Day, back in the 70s, the focus was on “over
population.” It was feared that the earth did not have enough resources to
support the three billion or so people who lived in the world back
then so an early objective of Earth Day was to push for zero
population growth. The idea of having children was booed by
environmental advocates. Paul Erlich, author of The
Population Bomb and an early champion of Earth Day made these
radical statements:
“[T]he
first task is population control at home. How do we go about it? Many
of my colleagues feel that some sort of compulsory birth regulation
would be necessary to achieve such control. One plan often mentioned
involves the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or
staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the
government to produce the desired population size.”
[The
Population Bomb, pp. 130-131]
Of
course, abortion was also one of the big issues of the 70s and
liberals used population control as another reason to support their
argument to allow abortion. Liberals often defend their radical
agendas by saying, “it's for the children.” In the case
of abortion, that doesn't quite have the same effect so they instead
said, “it's for the planet.”
We
now have doubled the population of the planet since Mr. Erlich wrote
his book so all of his dire predictions have been proven false. God
commanded Adam and Eve to be fruitful and fill the earth (Genesis
1:28) so He gave us a world capable of supporting many times the
number of people who are alive now. The idea of purposefully
limiting population growth is not only unnecessary, it's also a
direct rebellion to God's plan.
Liberals
also hate the free market and capitalism and so, over the years, they
have used environmental concerns as a cudgel to beat down private
property rights and for-profit endeavors. At first, radicals simply
did things like chaining themselves to trees to prevent logging. I wonder if any of these nuts lived in houses built with lumber?
Anyway, it's gotten worse over the years and now we are forced to
save the environment or face criminal fines. We can't drill for oil
in Alaska because there are caribou there. California farmers
couldn't water their orchards due to the delta smelt. I can't buy a
five gallon flush toilet or incandescent light bulbs because
legislators believe these things are destroying the planet. Now the
EPA even wants to fine (fleece?) cities and states for the rainwater that runs off
of roads and highways.
Liberals
have even used the environment to meddle in healthcare. For example,
the Feds have banned over the counter inhalers used to treat asthma
and have forced asthma suffers to buy more expensive,
prescription-only inhalers. The reason: the over the counter
inhalers contained CFCs.
On
this Earth Day, the focus is “climate change.” It's simply a new
spin on the old theme of forcing everyone to comply with liberal
ideology by making everything seem to be about the environment.
Liberals want to control everything that everyone does. Even
something like eating meat is condemned because cow flatulence is
supposedly destroying the ozone layer.
And I can't resist mentioning the evolutionary connection to Earth
Day. A few years back, I posted this Oakland Zoo quote about their
Earth Day celebration:
Bring
the whole family out to the Oakland Zoo from 10:00am - 3:00pm for
Earth Day 2009 Festivities! This year, the theme is "We're All
Connected." All of the world is connected in a beautiful web of
life, including you!
You
see, Earth Day advocates want everyone to believe we're all connected
via evolution: people, pandas, and petunias – we're all the same.
Finally,
Kathleen Rogers includes this quote in her article:
More
than one billion people from almost every single country on earth
will take an action in service to our planet.
What
probably bothers me about Earth Day more than the liberal agenda on parade
is the not-so-subtle idea of earth worship that seems to be going on.
What exactly does Ms. Rogers mean when she says talks about acting
“in service to our planet”? The Bible says that God gave
us every green thing to be our food (Genesis 1:29). God gave man
dominion over the birds and the fish and the beasts of the earth
(Genesis 1:26). In other words, the earth was made to serve us; we
were not made to serve the earth!
God
gave us a wonderful world because He loves us. On this earth day,
let's be good stewards over what God has given us but let's not
glorify the earth. Instead, give glory to God for His providence!
Have a Christ-centered Earth Day!
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