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Chuck Colson endorses global warming film
Two weeks ago we told you about Not Evil Just Wrong, a documentary that uses compelling stories of individuals and families to show the human cost of global warming hype. Last week, Chuck Colson reviewed the film (under the tongue-in-cheek heading, "Everyone Stop Breathing") and sampled some of the lessons viewers can draw from it:
Not Evil Just Wrong does a great job of clearing the air over some contentious issues. Take the hysteria over CO2 emissions, for example. CO2 is not a pollutant. It’s an odorless gas that every living being gives off when he or she exhales. As Patrick Moore, once a founder of Greenpeace, says in the film, “Anybody who knows anything about biology knows that carbon dioxide is the most important nutrient of all of life. It is the currency of life.”
...Global warming activists would be happy to slap moratoriums on the building of coal burning plants here in the U.S. Even better, they’d like to see existing plants eliminated.... Ironically, [this] would boost industry and production in China and India, were there are virtually no environmental regulations, and where they use “dirtier” coal than we do in the United States! The unintended consequence, of course, is that by shutting down coal and coal-based industries here, we end up increasing global air pollution, which comes from dirtier plants overseas.
But the most disturbing aspect of global warming hysteria, according to Colson, is activists' apparent disregard for the poor and most vulnerable:
The proposed “solutions” to global warming are, in many ways, profoundly anti-human. The wealthy can afford expensive power. The poor and working poor cannot.... Lord Lawson, a member of the economics committee of Britain’s House of Lords, puts it plainly: “The people who are calling for massive carbon dioxide reductions are the enemies of poverty reduction in the developing world.”
Click here to watch the trailer or order your own copy today!
(You can offer your church, small group, and friends a 10% discount by using this flyer [Word document].)
Meanwhile, in Washington...
In July, we reported on passage of global warming legislation by the U.S. House of Representatives that threatened to
- increase the average household's direct energy costs by about $1,200 and other costs by about $3,400 per year for a combined $4,600 per year;
- reduce gross domestic product by about $9.4 trillion in the years 2012-2035;
- lower employment by almost 2 million jobs in its first year, reaching nearly 2.5 million in 2035;
- raise the national debt by about $115,000 per family of four over the same period; and
- raise all other prices by increasing the cost of the energy used to produce goods and services.
As we said then, all of this is for a "likely impact by mid-century [of] only about 0.09 degree F reduction--an amount too small to detect."
Last week, Senators John Kerry (MA) and Barbara Boxer (CA) introduced a similar bill into their respective Senate committees, but the pathway forward is less than clear. Now comes word from the top UN climate change official that "a fully fledged new international [climate] treaty...I do not think that is going to happen.... If you look at the limited amount of time remaining to Copenhagen, it’s clear."
In a clever spoof, Christian satirist Scott Ott provides an entertaining (if unlikely) alternative scenario:
In an effort to move climate change legislation past Republican opposition, Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, today announced he had amended the cap-and-trade bill to require that a 20-percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions be matched by a 20-percent cut in federal spending by 2020. Both provisions would use the year 2005 as the baseline for comparison.
“Climate change and unrestrained federal spending both threaten our nation with looming disaster,” said Sen. Kerry. “If the government can stop global climate change by Congressional fiat, how much more can we reduce something that’s actually under our control?”
(Read the rest of his satirical piece
here.)
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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.
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-- The WeGetIt.org campaign team
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