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Transgressions Against Gaia
Global warming environoiac Bill McKibben went to church in Copenhagen on Sunday, and shared the emotional experience about his encounter with his god.
Global warming environoiac Bill McKibben went to church in Copenhagen on Sunday, and in a post at The Wonk Room he shared the emotional experience about his encounter with his god:
...my tears started before anyone said a word. As the service started, dozens choristers from around the world carried three things down the aisle and to the altar: pieces of dead coral bleached by hot ocean temperatures; stones uncovered by retreating glaciers; and small, shriveled ears of corn from drought-stricken parts of Africa. As I watched them go by, all I could think of was the people I’ve met in the last couple of years traveling the world: the people living in the valleys where those glaciers are disappearing, and the people downstream who have no backup plan for where their water is going to come from. The people who live on the islands surrounded by that coral, who depend on the reefs for the fish they eat, and to protect their homes from the waves. And the people, on every corner of the world, dealing with drought and flood, already unable to earn their daily bread in the places where their ancestors farmed for generations.
The global sobber
Those damned shriveled ears of corn. I’ve done everything I can think of, and millions of people around the world have joined us at 350.org in the most international campaign there ever was. But I just sat there thinking: It’s not enough. We didn’t do enough. I should have started earlier. People are dying already; people are sitting tonight in their small homes trying to figure out how they’re going to make the maize meal they have stretch far enough to fill the tummies of the kids sitting there waiting for dinner. And that’s with 390 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere.
Thank you for your repentance, Bill. And does Morano really need another hat tip?
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Eric Cartman| 12.16.09 @ 2:02PM
I can't stop laughing!
ncatty| 12.16.09 @ 2:30PM
You think this is funny, try clicking on the Bill McKibben link in the first sentence. Some good SNL material there.
Eric Cartman| 12.16.09 @ 2:38PM
Stop, stop! I'm peeing my pants!
ncatty| 12.16.09 @ 2:37PM
And don't miss the link to "went to church." The comments are especially a hoot.
Eric Cartman| 12.16.09 @ 2:47PM
I swear to all that is Holy, I will hunt you down and kill you! Stop! I can't breath anymore! I have to think of something sad, quick! Nancy Pelosi without botox . . . . Phew! Um, okay that's just scary.
JP| 12.16.09 @ 2:20PM
"...my tears started before anyone said a word. As the service started, dozens choristers from around the world carried three things down the aisle and to the altar: pieces of dead coral bleached by hot ocean temperatures; stones uncovered by retreating glaciers; and small, shriveled ears of corn from drought-stricken parts of Africa..."
Coral gets usually bleached by sea urchins not warm sea surface temps; glaciers have been retreating for over 10,000 years, and the most of the North American glaciers are less than 600 years old. As far as shriveled corn, perhaps the natives should take that up with thier dictators.
Margie| 12.16.09 @ 5:23PM
Right~ and do they ever mention the fact that there are volcano's under the sea that also contribute to the warming of the waters? I National Geo. or PBS documentary (can't remember which) on such, years ago. I thought "gee, they must be letting this one slip, as it certainly doesn't help their Leftist propagandizing!"
What the people who fear man's doings to the Earth need to know, is that God is the One who controls it all:
"Therefore we will not fear though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea.." Ps. 46:2.
Jeff| 12.16.09 @ 2:45PM
gee, what do those ears of corn extract as a nutrient from the air ???
Hope ?
Dreams ?
How about this ... why doesn't he go to Africa, drill some water wells, hook up some desiel pumps and irrigate the heck out of those parched fields so that we can double next years corn crop and then those bellies can be full.
I wonder how many starving Africans could be saved for the cost of this tools trip to Copenhagen ?
Tim| 12.16.09 @ 3:31PM
"why doesn't he go"
Probably remembers the Somali famine and how some Africans express gratitude.
JohnD| 12.16.09 @ 3:29PM
If the solution is to raise energy prices, you will raise food prices as a result. There are a billion people in the Third World who live off less than $1 a day; Raising energy prices will kill off these billion people, resulting in the worst genocide history has ever seen.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth. . ." Genesis 1;26
Richard Baker| 12.16.09 @ 4:12PM
Pagan insanity. Yes, that is redundant. Sounds like someone has been doing waaay too many "recreational" drugs.
SoCon| 12.16.09 @ 4:13PM
McKibben's teary-eyed, snot-nosed contrition is selective; the liberal moron doesn't give a fig about the tens of millions of innocent HUMAN babies who've been slaughtered by abortion. He makes me puke.
Liberalism is a mental illness.
Pete2| 12.16.09 @ 4:46PM
McKibben is a nutcase professor at Middlebury college up here in socilaist Vermont. He has become a laughing stock to us skeptics because he is such a alarmist nut. It's nice to see he went to Copenhagen, hopefully he'll apply for citizenship there.
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