“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.” — Theodore Roosevelt
God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.
And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.
I never understood how someone could believe that people are the primary cause of climate change. The climate has always been changing and will always continue to change. Those who label me as a climate denier say that it has been doing this for 4.6 billion years. This semester I am taking a philosophy class in which we learned about existentialism, a philosophical movement centering on analysis of individual existence and the plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for acts of free will without any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong (Merriam-Webster). This way of thinking elevates man into a role traditionally given to gods. I really like this way of thinking as a means of taking self-responsibility for making the world a better place, Jordan Peterson style. After studying this, I suddenly understood how people could believe that they had suddenly taken control of this ancient planetary cycle.