Thinking Biblically about Earth Stewardship & the Conquest of Poverty in the Age of Climate Change
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Calculating The Full Costs Of Electrifying Everything Using Only Wind, Solar And Batteries
For several years now, advocates of “decarbonizing” our energy system, along with promoters of wind and solar energy, have claimed that the cost of electricity from the wind and sun was dropping rapidly and either already was, or soon would be, less than the cost of generating the same electricity from fossil fuels. These claims
Must Media Exaggerate Scary Weather By Extra Scary Language?
There’s a major winter storm brewing for New England and, possibly, the mid-Atlantic states’ coastal regions. It could dump two feet of snow on Boston and New York City, similar amounts in surrounding areas, and over three feet in some places. It could also bring Category 1 hurricane-force winds (74–95 mph). Newsmax titled its report
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Is Pollution a Sin? How Many Americans Does Air Pollution Kill?
Email from a subscriber: 1.) Is pollution a sin or is it just unavoidable in our lives? How many things actually “pollute?” I struggle to say that pollution is a sin (as I’ve read from others) because there are many in the world who can’t afford the technologies that we have and I don’t think
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Get Involved: Educate Your Community!
As you know, every month we offer a free gift as our way of thanking donors who request it. For the month of September, 2021, we want to equip you to make a difference in your community, not only with personal knowledge, but with resources you can share. When you make a donation of any
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A Brief History of the Cornwall Alliance—Part 2: A Withered Seedling
The Cornwall Alliance, the roots of which we saw in Part 1, almost got its start in 2000, though with different name, constituency, and mission. That was when the short-lived Interfaith Council on Environmental Stewardship got its start. It grew out of a meeting of 25 Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish theologians, economists, environmental scientists,
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Against Environmental Anti-Humanism
Guest column by Marian Tupy On April 25, British Vogue published an article titled “Is Having a Baby in 2021 Pure Environmental Vandalism?” The author, Nell Frizzell, “worried about the sort of world” that she would bring her “child into — where we have perhaps just another 60 harvests left before our overworked soil gives out.” In
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The Tide-Theory of Climate Change
Guest article by Joakim Book I was watching the tide today and thought of climate change. Yes, they are different phenomena; the tide is predictable, well-known, and reverses itself like clockwork roughly every six hours, whereas climate change is unpredictable, uncertain, and (still) irreversible. Nevertheless, it serves as a relevant illustration of what we are
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The Ignorant World and What to Do About It
Guest column by Joakim Book A spectre is haunting the Western world – the spectre of a grossly mistaken understanding of the world. British kids have nightmares about the climate. Half of French respondents think it likely that climate change will cause “the extinction of the human race.” American teachers coddle students who have panic attacks when wildfires rage
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Playing Fast and Loose with Numbers
Guest article by Joakim Book Journalism is hard. To portray the world accurately to a layman audience without delving into the complexities and nuances of the universe we inhabit, writers must always simplify, explain, and make difficult content relatable for their readers. You can do this well and comprehensively, and you can do it poorly.
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