US "Green cities": all talk and no action
Thursday, April 5, 2007 at 09:59AM You see, this is the problem. When you commit yourself to a worldview belief system - and that is what the modern environmental movement's 'pattern of faith' is - the real test is whether you "live it" and don't just "talk it". As a practising Christian I should know - take a step out of line and the world and his brother are on your back.
In this article US 'Green cities' are being criticized for being 'all talk and no action' on carbon cutting. The criticism is valid as this is what we in the real world call: hypocrisy. If you are going to publicly proclaim your belief in GW catastrophe, then, for it to mean anything, you have to act upon your belief - or no one will take you seriously.
It's Easter, so I can say this ...Jesus 'lived it' and paid the penalty for doing so. That's what's required of all Christians. I accept that. So should my fellow Christians - and without complaining too. NB. So why mention faith here at all when we should be talking about science? Well that is entirely my point. Much science and GW belief is - and must be - predicated on faith. In the absence of empirical proof it is necessary to employ some degree of faith and that's what so many Greenies are in denial about.
It is obvious that Gore doesn't live it. Neither it seems do many other Green adherents unless, like the Hollywood glitterati, they can afford to pay up for carbon offsets - or 'moral offsets' as they should be called. Christians used to call this technique 'Indulgences'. The medieval church dumped the practise when it was seen for what it was - an immoral alternatives.
Happy Easter!
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