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Old-Fashioned Creation Care

Thrift and care for the environment go hand in hand.

David P. Gushee | posted 7/16/2007 08:51AM

I am becoming my grandfather, and that is a good thing. Let me explain.

The more I have gotten involved in the evangelical creation-care movement, the more I have found myself drawn toward practices that ...

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Chris

Posted: July 19, 2007 4:52 PM

Planting trees is not as good for the environment as you might think. Research from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California indicates that planting trees in northern latitudes has a neutral or negative effect on global warming. The verdict is still out on hybrid cars as well. The mining of nickel for the batteries in Canada has a significant environmental impact (acid rain), not to mention shipping it from Canada to Wales, to China and then to Japan, all on a carbon burning ship. NASA astronauts have practiced driving moon buggies on the deforested area surrounding the nickel mine. According to CNW Market Research (the source of this information), a Prius has an energy dollar per mile cost (over the lifetime of the vehicle) of $3.25 compared to the Hummer H3 with a cost of $1.93 Our creation care should be driven by facts not political power-brokers.

Ruth	Posted: July 16, 2007 12:55 PM

To David: Now it is time to think of getting rid of your lawn-- the largest polluter and energy-user in the American suburban lifestyle. Replace it with a rain garden or xeroscape. But it is good to see Christians adopting principles that I have held and implemented for thirty years. I don't get teased so much anymore for my "compulsive composting", and my neighbors say they love my garden with no lawn, only paths and perennials. And now the people who purchased our house in Colorado a quarter century ago are wishing they had not replaced the buffalo grass lawn with water-intensive bluegrass that is now dead. To Melody: Are we Christians not called to live simply and modestly as God directs and to let HIM worry about the world at large?

Sheryl

Posted: July 16, 2007 12:45 PM


I agree with Melody....Very well said.

Melody Stuart

Posted: July 16, 2007 12:04 PM

While I believe that we should be frugal and careful, I don't believe that we are big enough to change climate. We can ride bicycles all day long for years, and God will come along and explode a volcano and undo 100 years of our work. There is much documentation and scientific study which refutes the so-called global warming "problem" which Al Gore steadfastly ignores. His program was full of errors and exaggerations designed to hinder the US and Western nations. Other planets in our solar system are also warming, and no people live there. We were warmer on this planet early in the 1900's, and certainly no carbons were problematic then. God has shown that He is capable of wiping whole countries off the face of the earth with tsunamis, volcanos, solar flares when He so chooses. We need to not be wasteul and stay on His good side. Our efforts are puny, and He can override us.

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