“I’m convinced there are young people who are searching for churches which will embrace their passion for caring for the earth. These folks can help the church remember its connection to creation, and the church can give them a sense of wholeness in their lives by relating their passion to Christ,” said the Rev. Pat Watkins, a United Methodist clergy member of the Virginia Annual (regional) Conference and environmental coordinator for the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy.
The task force joined Muslim, Jewish and Christian clergy for a breakfast to discuss the role of faith communities in caring for creation. The breakfast was co-sponsored by the British Embassy and the Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light.
Speakers included the Right Rev. James Jones, bishop of Liverpool in the Church of England, who described how he called for a “carbon fast” last year for Lent in the Diocese of Liverpool. He said such a fast was more valuable than giving up chocolate or candy or other more typical seasonal sacrifices. “We are caught up in a disease of consumption, and that is what is afflicting the earth,” he said.
Jones said that, by the end of the carbon fast, “people weren’t ready to resume their previous consumption levels; it made them think about their life
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Anyone still reading down this far?
Here is a great article [url=http://www.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2006/fireandice/fireandice.asp]FIRE AND ICE[/url] chronicling the media coverage of ‘Global Climate Change hysteria’ since 1895!
short quote:
It was five years before the turn of the century and major media were warning of disastrous climate change. Page six of The New York Times was headlined with the serious concerns of “geologists.†Only the president at the time wasn’t Bill Clinton; it was Grover Cleveland. And the Times wasn’t warning about global warming – it was telling readers the looming dangers of a new ice age.
The year was 1895, and it was just one of four different time periods in the last 100 years when major print media predicted an impending climate crisis. Each prediction carried its own elements of doom, saying Canada could be “wiped out†or lower crop yields would mean “billions will die.â€
And their conclusion?
[blockquote] What can one conclude from 110 years of conflicting climate coverage except that the weather changes and the media are just as capricious?
Certainly, their record speaks for itself. Four separate and distinct climate theories targeted at a public taught to believe the news. Only all four versions of the truth can’t possibly be accurate.
For ordinary Americans to judge the media’s version of current events about global warming, it is necessary to admit that journalists have misrepresented the story three other times.
Yet no one in the media is owning up to that fact. Newspapers that pride themselves on correction policies for the smallest errors now find themselves facing a historical record that is enormous and unforgiving.
It is time for the news media to admit a consistent failure to report this issue fairly or accurately, with due skepticism of scientific claims.
It would be difficult for the media to do a worse job with climate change coverage.[/blockquote]
#2 libraryjim. What you say makes a lot more sense than what I get out of our media sources. Was it Adolph Hitler who said if you tell a lie big enough and often enough people will start to believe it.
Yeah, it’s all about power. The more people buy into the ‘humans are causing global warming’ hysteria, the more power they will be willing to turn over to various groups. That will mean higher taxes, lower standards of living, and submitting every decision to the government before doing anything (like buying a new car or even a light-bulb!), and all without asking: “Are the data and conclusions valid?”