Climate

In these days when the world is becoming ever more fearful, how strong is our faith? Jesus said on the day before His arrest: “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened” (Matt. 24:21-22). What did the risen Lord say to us in the last book to be written?

I recently encountered somebody saying that we are to, “embrace a kind of Christian eco-spirituality which has a vision to save the created order”. The writer admitted that it would be a demanding and self-sacrificing task. I asked my pastor the other day how his eco-spirituality was.

2019 was a year in which climate change became prominent like never before. In particular, a young girl named Greta Thunberg, became an instant celebrity because she boycotted a school lesson to protest climate change. Since then, she has inspired young people in various countries to strike. In March last year, globally, over 1 million people joined a climate protest. In May that same year, there were 1600 events across 150 countries.

Climate Change

Alfred Knights

As silently as dawn heralds a new day, so it seems that Climate Change has invaded Planet Earth. For centuries the snow caps and icebergs have dominated the polar regions then suddenly we hear the snow caps are receding and the icebergs disintegrating, whilst around the world unusual weather patterns are devastating towns and cities with a terrible loss of life.

The Science page article on global warming in the Daily Telegraph of 29th Sept. 2004 began by stating: “The Earth's atmosphere is so polluted that the planet is dying.” In a speech on 14th Sept. 2004, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said he was “shocked” by the latest scientific forecasts on the “alarming and unsustainable” consequences of global warming, adding that even in his lifetime the impact on the world could be so far-reaching and “irreversible in its destructive power” that it altered human existence radically. For “the latest scientific forecasts” we will turn to Dr Mayer Hillman, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Policy Studies Institute, who wrote the book, How We Can Save the Planet (Penguin, 2004), and an article in The Independent Review of 27th May 2004.