 December 10, 2008
Dear Friend, As you read this week's WeGetIt.org Wednesday Bulletin, please be thinking of friends who would benefit from it, and then forward it to them. Thanks for your support! Not all green jobs are created equal
As UN climate talks wind down this week in Poland, the economic downturn is weighing heavily on national leaders and there appears little hope of meeting the goal of replacing the Kyoto Protocol by the end of next year. Country after country is reporting poor results in meeting existing emissions targets, and now Poland itself is threatening to back out unless it is given more time. Global warming alarmists are trying to link the economic crisis to combating climate change. After meeting yesterday with climate activist-extraordinaire Al Gore, President-elect Obama reiterated his intention to spur the U.S. economy with New Deal-style “green” job creation. Congressional leaders are champing at the bit for a second chance at job-destroying climate change regulation, and the Environmental Protection Agency is studying how to regulate CO2 emissions from lawn mowers and weed trimmers. Lost in all of this is how the poor (who spend a much higher percentage of their income on basic necessities) will suffer disproportionately from rising costs for food, energy, and other staples. Now comes news that 650 scientists are challenging the UN’s predictions of human-induced, catastrophic global warming. That’s why thousands of Christians are standing together with the WeGetIt.org campaign , to show that we support a Biblical approach to environmental stewardship and reject the hype. Send this to your friends and encourage them to join you in telling our leaders, “We get it!” House of Lords global warming debate a "religious service" Nigel Lawson, Lord Lawson of Blaby, former British secretary of state for energy and author of An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, told the House of Lords last month that he hadn't spoken on the issue there before because he "felt it was unbecoming for an unbeliever to take part in a religious service, which is what all this is really about." Lawson was speaking of a bill brought before the House of Lords aiming to cut British CO2 emissions by 80 percent to fight global warming. "The Bill will go down in history...as the most absurd Bill that this House and Parliament has ever had to examine," he said. He also pointed out that a European target of a 20% cut by 2020 had already been abandoned by the EU. What is Biblical stewardship? It's easy to see that environmentalism tends to deify nature. But a balanced, Biblical view acknowledges God's central role:
Now, please forward this message to your pastor, other Christian leaders, and friends and urge them to sign the WeGetIt.org Declaration, too! The more people sign, the stronger the message our leaders will hear that Biblical principles and factual evidence, not media hype about speculative fears like global warming, should guide our care for the environment and the poor.Gratefully,
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