Help!!! Where's Al Gore when we need him??! A volcano in Iceland is melting a glacier, resulting in massive flooding, and is polluting the atmosphere on a massive scale!!
"A massive cloud of volcanic ash lingers over Europe today," began the ABC Radio News at 1:00 PM today. The ash being spewed out by the volcano has halted all air traffic from Heathrow and throughout northern Europe.
The pollution from that one volcanic eruption alone is greater than the pollution caused by all the cars ever manufactured, yet mankind had nothing whatsoever to do with it. We couldn't have stopped it had we tried. That, more than anything else, is proof positive that we are NOT in charge here, no matter how much the left wants to believe otherwise.
The volcanic eruption is a natural occurrence, as is the resulting glacial melting and atmospheric pollution.
Have you ever wondered who has deemed himself wise enough to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that a certain circumstance in, say, a national park or a small wetlands area, should remain static and not be allowed to naturally evolve?
I have lived on the same small parcel of land for 20 years. At the bottom of my lot is a small area that the government has declared a wetland, because during and after heavy rain, water collects in several low areas. I have observed that area over the years and have been amazed by the continual change.
When I first moved here, there were a lot of stinging nettles, which I pruned away from a path that my children used to cross the area to get to the creek. The nettles slowly gave way to dame's rocket, a lovely magenta and white wildflower. The dame's rocket gradually gave way to tall, gorgeous, ferny stalks of poison hemlock. How I looked forward to spring and the growth of the beautiful hemlock stalks that towered over me! And how disappointed I was when the hemlock gave way to garlic mustard, a rather blah plant with tiny white flowers. A few years ago, there mysteriously appeared a patch of wild narcissus, which I've dubbed "God's daffodils". The clump of daffodils grows a little larger each year and this spring, they were so beautiful in their perfection that I took a half-dozen photos of them!
Now, my question is this: Which of these natural phases would a rabid environmentalist decide is THE perfect state for my little wetland and should be forever "preserved"? At what point should we have forced a halt to this natural growth and change of my small patch of wetlands. What criteria would be used to arrive at such a decision? And who could possibly be wise enough to know better than God how that patch of land should progress or what plant and animal life it should host?? You see how completely irrational is the average environmentalist mind?
Which brings us back to the Icelandic volcano. The volcanic eruption has impacted the environment in a manner and to an extent impossible for man to emulate. According to current faddish environmentalist thought, shouldn't we rush to halt the eruption before it causes even more pollution and damage? And how would these wise fools suggest we do that?
Some people walk through life with blinders on, seeing only that small area on which they are directly focused and unable to see, appreciate or process the larger picture. Environmentalists belong to that unfortunate group.
It's time to take the blinders off, folks, and look at what REALLY happens in a natural environment. Nature is NOT static. To force it into an artificial stasis is more unnatural and more harmful than almost anything else mankind could do.
"A massive cloud of volcanic ash lingers over Europe today," began the ABC Radio News at 1:00 PM today. The ash being spewed out by the volcano has halted all air traffic from Heathrow and throughout northern Europe.
The pollution from that one volcanic eruption alone is greater than the pollution caused by all the cars ever manufactured, yet mankind had nothing whatsoever to do with it. We couldn't have stopped it had we tried. That, more than anything else, is proof positive that we are NOT in charge here, no matter how much the left wants to believe otherwise.
The volcanic eruption is a natural occurrence, as is the resulting glacial melting and atmospheric pollution.
Have you ever wondered who has deemed himself wise enough to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that a certain circumstance in, say, a national park or a small wetlands area, should remain static and not be allowed to naturally evolve?
I have lived on the same small parcel of land for 20 years. At the bottom of my lot is a small area that the government has declared a wetland, because during and after heavy rain, water collects in several low areas. I have observed that area over the years and have been amazed by the continual change.
When I first moved here, there were a lot of stinging nettles, which I pruned away from a path that my children used to cross the area to get to the creek. The nettles slowly gave way to dame's rocket, a lovely magenta and white wildflower. The dame's rocket gradually gave way to tall, gorgeous, ferny stalks of poison hemlock. How I looked forward to spring and the growth of the beautiful hemlock stalks that towered over me! And how disappointed I was when the hemlock gave way to garlic mustard, a rather blah plant with tiny white flowers. A few years ago, there mysteriously appeared a patch of wild narcissus, which I've dubbed "God's daffodils". The clump of daffodils grows a little larger each year and this spring, they were so beautiful in their perfection that I took a half-dozen photos of them!
Now, my question is this: Which of these natural phases would a rabid environmentalist decide is THE perfect state for my little wetland and should be forever "preserved"? At what point should we have forced a halt to this natural growth and change of my small patch of wetlands. What criteria would be used to arrive at such a decision? And who could possibly be wise enough to know better than God how that patch of land should progress or what plant and animal life it should host?? You see how completely irrational is the average environmentalist mind?
Which brings us back to the Icelandic volcano. The volcanic eruption has impacted the environment in a manner and to an extent impossible for man to emulate. According to current faddish environmentalist thought, shouldn't we rush to halt the eruption before it causes even more pollution and damage? And how would these wise fools suggest we do that?
Some people walk through life with blinders on, seeing only that small area on which they are directly focused and unable to see, appreciate or process the larger picture. Environmentalists belong to that unfortunate group.
It's time to take the blinders off, folks, and look at what REALLY happens in a natural environment. Nature is NOT static. To force it into an artificial stasis is more unnatural and more harmful than almost anything else mankind could do.
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