Once upon a time there was a lush garden that sprang up over a billion years. It was full of beauty, of evolving plants and animals living in perfect balance and harmony. Very recently, however, a clever creature evolved–mankind.
Man lived for a while in balance and equality with Nature. It was a time of great joy, with no sexual boundaries and everyone shared everything equally.
Then, one day, the first “bad” man stopped sharing. He entertained the first hierarchical ideals of inequality when he began to hunt for animal meat and then stopped sharing his food, his sex partner and his shelter. Soon enough, he was hording food, took a “wife” for himself only and built a private “family” shelter…all of which he now had to defend
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Thus, war and hatred and greed and manipulation were born. Humanity had taken a "wrong turn" or, you might say, fell from Nature's good graces (similar to Adam and Eve in the Garden) because of the advent of hierarchical thinking. And, what we now refer to as "civilization".
But wait…today’s Green philosophy has developed a narrative of redemption where we can set things right again-where we can restore our lost purity with a Green, ethical return to Nature. Your penance…REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE is just the begining… You must also LOATH all hints of human domination…expunge all hierarchical thinking (especially religion) from your life! Deconstruct civilization back to the soil and live “free” again in harmony with Nature.
Now, that’s not too much to ask is it?
"REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE is just the begining… "
That much, is true, and, an accurate representation of Green philosophy. The rest of what you wrote is pretty weird.
I hope you don’t have some kind of a moral objection to reducing, reusing, and recycling. Well, if you did, it wouldn’t be moral. Those things are moral, and truly part of the Green philosophy. And no, it doesn’t end there — that is just the beginning.
Ultimately, we should not pollute. We should eliminate the burning of fossil fuels. Maybe for NASCAR, we could make the sole exception, but as a rule, we ought to be working, very hard, on developing clean and green sources of energy. Wind and solar power, specifically, do not pollute at all. Hydrogen fuel cells combine hydrogen with oxygen to produce water. We could obtain the hydrogen from electrolysis of water using electricity generated by wind and solar, and still run our cars, but with a cycle that goes from water to water.
We should NEVER be allowed to use the excuse, “this is a passing world, soon Jesus will return anyway,” to avoid our responsibility to care for this sole planet we have been given.
The Catholic Church should LEAD the “green revolution,” not fight it.
Revelation 18:15
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet. There were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world now belongs to our Lord and to his Anointed, and he will reign forever and ever.”
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The twenty-four elders who sat on their thrones before God prostrated themselves and worshiped God
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and said: “We give thanks to you, Lord God almighty, who are and who were. For you have assumed your great power and have established your reign.
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The nations raged, but your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and to recompense your servants, the prophets, and the holy ones and those who fear your name, the small and the great alike, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
You see? Those who destroy the earth shall themselves be destroyed by God, when the time comes.
