Could &#8220;ecological sin&#8221; one day be added to the list of sins in the Catechism of the Catholic Church? Pope Francis has proposed such an idea.
Speaking at the 20th World Congress of the International Association of Penal Law in Rome, the Holy Father said Christians have a duty to preserve the environment.
&#8220;We have to introduce – we are thinking about it – to the Catechism of the Catholic Church the sin against ecology, the &#8216;ecological sin&#8217; against our common home, because a duty is at stake,&#8221; Pope Francis said, as reported by <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-proposes-adding-ecological-sin-against-common-home-to-catechism">LifeSiteNews</a>.
So how exactly would a &#8220;sin against ecology&#8221; work on theological scale? According to Catholic author Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, the language would have to be framed in a way that illustrates that the sin would be against God rather than an inanimate object.
“There is no possible sin against planet Earth,” Kwasniewski told the outlet. “All sins are ultimately against God or those who are in God&#8217;s image. As all theologians have explained prior to the post-conciliar decline of theology, when we abuse the natural world or animals or plants, we are sinning against God their creator, who gave them to us to use for the right purposes and in accordance with their nature and ours.&#8221;
“The only ‘targets’ of sin are persons, since they are either divine persons who deserve our total obedience, or angelic or human persons who deserve our reverence as images of God,&#8221; he continued.
If a person were to abuse a tree or an animal, Kwasniewski said that the person would be in grave violation against God due to the natural order, not because an animal or a tree has any basic rights.
“Someone who tortures an animal or burns down a forest for fun is a sinner not because the animal or the forest has rights, but because he offends God, the great king over all the earth, from whom all things come for our benefit and to whom they are ordered,” he said. “Man is obliged in justice to respect God&#8217;s gift and the order He has established; man must also respect the common destination of material goods, i.e., that God has made the earth for the benefit of all, not for the selfish benefit of a few,” he continued.
If Pope Francis were to frame &#8220;ecological sin&#8221; in this light if the Cathechism were to ever be amended, it would stand in line with Catholic tradition, which has always stated human beings have a moral obligation to preserve the environment as a gift sent from God. In fact, Pope Benedict XVI made that very argument in his &#8220;God and the World.&#8221;
&#8220;Certainly, a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens living so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible,” Benedict wrote. “Animals, too, are God&#8217;s creatures and even if they do not have the same direct relationship to God that human beings have, they are still creatures of God&#8217;s will, creatures we must respect as companions in creation.&#8221;

Pope Francis Celebrates World Day Of The Poor With Special Mass And Lunch

Pope Francis Proposes Adding ‘Ecological Sin’ To Catechism

Catholic Church

Environmentalism

Pope Francis

Greta has left the mainland.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old phenom from Sweden, has left the United States en route to Spain for a climate summit. But she doesn&#8217;t fly &#8212; too much pollution from burning a petroleum product.
So instead she&#8217;s on a boat, made of &#8230; petroleum products.
&#8220;So happy to say I&#8217;ll hopefully make it to COP25 in Madrid,&#8221; Greta wrote on Twitter. &#8220;I’ve been offered a ride from Virginia on the 48ft catamaran La Vagabonde. Australians @Sailing_LaVaga ,Elayna Carausu &amp; @_NikkiHenderson from England will take me across the Atlantic. We sail for Europe tomorrow morning!&#8221; she wrote Tuesday.
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So happy to say I&#8217;ll hopefully make it to COP25 in Madrid. 
I’ve been offered a ride from Virginia on the 48ft catamaran La Vagabonde. Australians @Sailing_LaVaga ,Elayna Carausu &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/_NikkiHenderson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@_NikkiH</a>e<a href="https://twitter.com/_NikkiHenderson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">nderson</a> from England will take me across the Atlantic. 
We sail for Europe tomorrow morning! <a href="https://t.co/qJcgREe332">pic.twitter.com/qJcgREe332</a>
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 12, 2019</blockquote>
&#8220;Twelve weeks after sailing into New York City, Greta hitched a ride back to Europe Wednesday with celebrity sailors Elayna Carausu and Riley Whitelum on La Vagabonde, a luxury catamaran made of petroleum products like fiberglass,&#8221; The <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/14/greta-thunberg-takes-flak-returning-europe-plastic/">Washington Times</a> reported.
<blockquote>Greta’s father Svante Thunberg and British yachtswoman Nikki Henderson joined the La Vagabonde crew, raising questions about whether they flew across the pond only to sail back.
In addition to solar and hydro power, the craft is equipped with two diesel 30hp engines, according to Multihull Central, a boat-reviewing site, as noted by climate skeptic Tom Nelson.</blockquote>
That last detail brought some criticism on social media sites.
&#8220;Uh oh: Greta&#8217;s planet-destroying luxury yacht has two diesel engines with 672L diesel fuel tank,&#8221; wrote on person on Twitter.
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Uh oh: Greta&#8217;s planet-destroying luxury yacht has two diesel engines with 672L diesel fuel tank.<a href="https://t.co/vkQM1bHlls">https://t.co/vkQM1bHlls</a><a href="https://t.co/ga1xg7MiHO">https://t.co/ga1xg7MiHO</a><a href="https://t.co/esHRZ0aJwR">https://t.co/esHRZ0aJwR</a> <a href="https://t.co/0e0vmDoJRF">https://t.co/0e0vmDoJRF</a>
— Tom Nelson (@tan123) November 13, 2019</blockquote>
&#8220;Greta’s return boat, an Outremer 45, weighs 17,400 pounds and is made of fiberglass, or fiber-reinforced plastic. The yacht was pumped out of the ground by oil companies. It draws auxiliary power from twin Volvo Diesel engines,&#8221; wrote another.
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Greta’s return boat, an Outremer 45, weighs 17,400 pounds and is made of fiberglass, or fiber-reinforced plastic. The yacht was pumped out of the ground by oil companies. It draws auxiliary power from twin Volvo Diesel engines #Greta <a href="https://t.co/JZJelGiS3O">https://t.co/JZJelGiS3O</a>
— CFACT (@CFACT) November 13, 2019</blockquote>
“The irony of protesting capitalism and oil on board a carbon-fiber (petrochemical) yacht owned by European royals who made billions operating Monaco as a tax haven was rich,” CFACT President Craig Rucker said, The Times reported.
The 16-year-old student  has become an international star and darling of the mainstream media. She has warned world leaders about climate change in a speech at the United Nations, and she&#8217;s been palling around with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who also is a climate activist.
She was set to head down Chile for a U.N. climate summit this month but that was been canceled amid political unrest. “As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help,” Greta wrote on Twitter Nov. 1 while in Los Angeles. “It turns out I’ve traveled half around the world, the wrong way. Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November … If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful.”
Twitterers hit her then, too.
&#8220;[F]ly on a private jet with Leo, he flies private all over the world,&#8221; one wag wrote. Another offered an even better solution: &#8220;Video-conference saves energy.&#8221;
But others offered real advice.
&#8220;Dear Greta, Millions of people fly on airplanes every day. Your life doesn&#8217;t need to be so complicated. You are being lied to by the adults around you. You should be in school enjoying yourself, not being tortured by unscrupulous people using you for propaganda.&#8221;
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Dear Greta,
Millions of people fly on airplanes every day. Your life doesn&#8217;t need to be so complicated. You are being lied to by the adults around you.
You should be in school enjoying yourself, not being tortured by unscrupulous people using you for propaganda.
— Tony Heller (@Tony__Heller) November 3, 2019</blockquote>

Greta Thunberg

Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Heads To Spain On Yacht Made From Petroleum Products

Climate Change

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made a series of bizarre statements over the weekend while campaigning in Iowa for fellow socialist and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), saying that when a politician has let her down, &#8220;it feels like I never want to love again.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks on Saturday during a “Climate Crisis” summit in Iowa where she spoke to an audience that appeared to consist largely of far-left climate activists.
After Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders both gave their speeches, the two had a question and answer session where Ocasio-Cortez tried to relate to the audience by talking about how she emotionally processes a politician letting her down.
&#8220;And so, when you elect a politician, and then they let you down, it feels like rejection,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said. &#8220;It feels like heart break. It feels like betrayal. It feels like I never want to love again. That&#8217;s what that feels like.&#8221;
&#8220;And so, I understand how that feels because I felt that way,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;But you know what happens when you say, &#8216;I never want to love again&#8217;? Your heart gets black and you turn angry and get very anxious.&#8221;
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Socialist Ocasio-Cortez on politicians falling short: “Feels like rejection. Feels like heartbreak. Feels like betrayal. Feels like I never want to love again. You know what happens when you say, ‘I never want to love again’? Your heart gets black&#8230;angry”
Complete insanity <a href="https://t.co/gSz667PB7D">pic.twitter.com/gSz667PB7D</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1193427045092487168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
During the event, Ocasio-Cortez also appeared to suggest that President Donald Trump was a virus or a disease that people needed to vaccinate themselves against.
“Trump is a symptom, he is a symptom of much deeper problems,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“Here’s the thing, is that we can beat him but we have to vaccinate ourselves against something like this ever happening again,” Ocasio-Cortez said in reference to Trump’s 2016 election victory, adding, “and the way we inoculate ourselves from late-stage hyper capitalistic concentration of wealth among the very, very few is with a labor movement.”
Ocasio-Cortez suggested that the only way that Americans could “get through this moment” was to “guarantee” health care to everyone.
“The way we inoculate ourselves from continuing to burn up our planet at unsustainable level triggering feedback loops that we have not even begun to comprehend is by honoring indigenous wisdom and allowing it to guide our climate policy,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “The way that we preserve our systems is by transitioning to principles of universality, that means I want you clothed, I want you educated, I want you paid a living wage – no ifs, ands, or buts. And what that also means [and] what Naomi talked about as well is directly, consciously, combating white supremacy in the United States of America.”
“When people try to accuse us of going too far left – we’re not pushing the party left,” she said, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/10/us/politics/bernie-sanders-aoc-iowa.html">The New York Times</a>. “We are bringing the party home.”
&#8220;Yet what remains unclear, even after her positive reception this weekend, is whether Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and the political ideology that she and Mr. Sanders embrace resonates beyond Iowa’s more liberal pockets,&#8221; The Times added. &#8220;Mr. Sanders is still running third in most polls, faces formidable competition from Ms. Warren for progressive voters and is likely to endure nagging doubts about his fitness right up until the first Iowans caucus on Feb. 3.&#8221;

Ocasio-Cortez

Ocasio-Cortez: Politicians Letting Me Down ‘Feels Like I Never Want To Love Again’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Bernie Sanders

Teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg, who dominated headlines last month after her speech to the U.N. declaring that we are &#8220;in the beginning of a mass extinction,&#8221; was offered an award this week from the Nordic Council for &#8220;breathing new life into the debate surrounding the environment and climate at a critical moment in world history.&#8221;
But on Tuesday, the 16-year-old told the council that they could keep their climate prize and issued an ultimatum: she will not accept an award from them until they move on from &#8220;bragging&#8221; and using &#8220;beautiful words&#8221; to acting &#8220;in accordance with what the science says is needed&#8221; to combat global warming.
Thunberg issued her official rejection of the award and rebuke of the council via an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Ns7PQpE5C/">Instagram post</a> Tuesday. The council has since confirmed that she indeed turned down their prize, which is worth a little over $50,000.
&#8220;I have received the Nordic Council’s environmental award 2019. I have decided to decline this prize,&#8221; wrote Thunberg. Noting that she&#8217;s  traveling through California and thus unable to deliver her message in person, the celebrity activist wrote out her rejection speech.
&#8220;I want to thank the Nordic Council for this award. It is a huge honour,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;But the climate movement does not need any more awards. What we need is for our politicians and the people in power start to listen to the current, best available science.&#8221;
Thunberg then specifically called out the Nordic countries for what she characterized as their self-congratulatory hypocrisy.
&#8220;The Nordic countries have a great reputation around the world when it comes to climate and environmental issues,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There is no lack of bragging about this. There is no lack of beautiful words. But when it comes to our actual emissions and our ecological footprints per capita — if we include our consumption, our imports as well as aviation and shipping — then it’s a whole other story.&#8221;
She then got more specific, hitting the Nordic nations for not doing enough to eliminate fossil fuels: &#8220;In Sweden we live as if we had about 4 planets according to WWF and Global Footprint Network. And roughly the same goes for the entire Nordic region. In Norway for instance, the government recently gave a record number of permits to look for new oil and gas. The newly opened oil and natural gas-field, &#8216;Johan Sverdrup&#8217; is expected to produce oil and natural gas for 50 years; oil and gas that would generate global CO2 emissions of 1,3 tonnes.&#8221;
&#8220;The gap between what the science says is needed to limit the increase of global temperature rise to below 1,5 or even 2 degrees — and politics that run the Nordic countries is gigantic. And there are still no signs whatsoever of the changes required,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;The Paris Agreement, which all of the Nordic countries have signed, is based on the aspect of equity, which means that richer countries must lead the way. We belong to the countries that have the possibility to do the most. And yet our countries still basically do nothing.&#8221;
She closed with one of her trademark ultimatums. &#8220;So until you start to act in accordance with what the science says is needed to limit the global temperature rise below 1,5 degrees or even 2 degrees celsius, I — and Fridays For Future in Sweden — choose not to accept the Nordic Councils environmental award nor the prize money of 500 000 Swedish kronor,&#8221; she concluded.
As reported by <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/greta-thunberg-declined-a-climate-award-because-the-world-needs-more-action-fewer-awards/ar-AAJydfk">CNN</a>, the Nordic Council confirmed in a news release Tuesday that Thunberg did indeed reject their award.
Dressing down world leaders has become Thunberg&#8217;s modus operandi. In late September, the climate alarmist issued a similar statement to the United Nations which painted an apocalyptic picture of the world and included digs about the leaders being &#8220;not mature enough&#8221; to be honest about the dire situation.
&#8220;My message is that we’ll be watching you,&#8221; she said in a speech that went viral, in part due to critics pointing to its hyperbolic claims. &#8220;This is all wrong, I shouldn’t be up here, I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet, you all come to us young people for hope, how dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.&#8221;
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Greta Thunberg Rejects Climate Award, Rips Countries That Gave It To Her

Global Warming

Norway

Sweden

Daniel Craig&#8217;s last outing as James Bond may be the boldest one yet, with reports now indicating that the upcoming installment will feature an eco-friendly mastermind as the famed MI6 agent&#8217;s arch-nemesis.
&#8220;His unnamed nemesis – nicknamed Greenfinger by insiders – has a lair powered by an algae farm and with a Zen garden,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10214824/james-bond-eco-friendly-villain/">The Sun</a>. &#8220;As the plot is shrouded in secrecy, it is not clear what the villain is plotting to do or how <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/topic/james-bond/">007</a> confronts him.&#8221;
&#8220;Director Cary Joji Fukunaga is so keen to keep the plot under wraps <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10185662/james-bond-no-time-to-die-endings/">he has reportedly filmed three endings</a>. But an eco-friendly villain would be a Bond first,&#8221; continued the report. &#8220;One theory is that algae blooms can produce deadly toxins.&#8221;
A source close to production told The Sun that the film&#8217;s villain, played by the Oscar-winning Rami Malek, will own a sinister algae farm.
“The baddie’s lair apparently has a giant algae farm,&#8221; the source said. “Something like that would look very sinister and green so will look great on the screen. Quite how it will impact Bond only the scriptwriters can know but fans will be keen to find out.”
&#8220;No Time to Die,&#8221; as the film is titled, will solidify Daniel Craig&#8217;s exit from the Bond franchise, which began 13 years ago with &#8220;Casino Royale&#8221; in 2006.
While making the Bond baddie an eco-friendly terrorist this time around is indeed a bold choice, it is hardly the first franchise to do so. In fact, it’s been argued that the character of Thanos in &#8220;The Avengers&#8221; series is an eco-friendly terrorist, given his fixation on population control.
As Maddie Stone of <a href="https://earther.gizmodo.com/avengers-infinity-war-shows-a-dark-side-of-environment-1825638315">Gizmodo</a> argued:
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As the film unfolds, it becomes clear Thanos’ quest for omnipotence isn’t driven by greed, hunger for power, or lust for revenge. He merely wants the ability to kill half the lifeforms in the galaxy in one fell swoop. Ostensibly, he’s motivated by a desire to allay suffering and ensure there are enough resources for future generations to thrive.
In other words, Thanos embodies the classic fear that unchecked population growth is a march toward destruction.
</blockquote>
As to what led the writers of &#8220;No Time to Die&#8221; to have an eco-friendly mastermind go up against James Bond remains to be seen, but actor Rami Malek may have had an influence, given he demanded that his character not be a standard Middle Eastern caricature or a religious fundamentalist.
“It’s a great character and I’m very excited,” Malek <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rami-malek-demanded-his-bond-villain-not-be-paul-bois">told The Mirror</a> earlier this year. “But that was one thing that I discussed with [director] <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/cary-fukunaga" data-vars-event-id="c6" data-vars-item-name="BL-8985646-/topic/cary-fukunaga">Cary Fukunaga</a>. I said, ‘We cannot identify him with any act of terrorism reflecting an ideology or a religion. That’s not ­something I would entertain, so if that is why I am your choice then you can count me out’. But that was clearly not his vision. So he’s a very different kind of terrorist.”
Malek added that the film has delivered “another extremely clever script from the people who have figured out exactly what people want in those movies.”
“But I feel a substantial weight on my shoulders,” he continued. “I mean, Bond is ­something that we all grow up with.”
Malek specified that his desire to see more positive representations of his ethnicity (Egyptian) motivated him to push the filmmakers away from a stereotypical representation.
“I am Egyptian. I grew up listening to Egyptian music. I loved Omar Sharif,” Malek said. “These are my people. I feel so gorgeously tied to the culture and the human beings that exist there.”

Today &#8211; Season 68

REPORT: James Bond Villain Will Be An ‘Eco-Friendly&#8217; Mastermind

Hollywood

James Bond

Rami Malek

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has published a new paper, &#8220;Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions.&#8221; Keep in mind that many of the grossly wrong environmentalist predictions were made by respected scientists and government officials. My question for you is: If you were around at the time, how many government restrictions and taxes would you have urged to avoid the predicted calamity?
As reported in The New York Times (Aug. 1969) Stanford University biologist Dr. Paul Erhlich warned: &#8220;The trouble with almost all environmental problems is that by the time we have enough evidence to convince people, you&#8217;re dead. We must realize that unless we&#8217;re extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.&#8221;
In 2000, Dr. David Viner, a senior research scientist at University of East Anglia&#8217;s climate research unit, predicted that in a few years winter snowfall would become &#8220;a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren&#8217;t going to know what snow is.&#8221; In 2004, the U.S. Pentagon warned President George W. Bush that major European cities would be beneath rising seas. Britain will be plunged into a Siberian climate by 2020. In 2008, Al Gore predicted that the polar ice cap would be gone in a mere 10 years. A U.S. Department of Energy study led by the U.S. Navy predicted the Arctic Ocean would experience an ice-free summer by 2016.
In May 2014, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius declared during a joint appearance with Secretary of State John Kerry that &#8220;we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.&#8221;
Peter Gunter, professor at North Texas State University, predicted in the spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness: &#8220;Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions. &#8230; By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.&#8221;
Ecologist Kenneth Watt&#8217;s 1970 prediction was, &#8220;If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000.&#8221; He added, &#8220;This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.&#8221;
Mark J. Perry, scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan&#8217;s Flint campus, cites 18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of first Earth Day in 1970. This time it&#8217;s not about weather. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated that humanity would run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold and silver would be gone before 1990. Kenneth Watt said, &#8220;By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate &#8230; that there won&#8217;t be any more crude oil.&#8221;
There were grossly wild predictions well before the first Earth Day, too. In 1939, the U.S. Department of the Interior predicted that American oil supplies would last for only another 13 years. In 1949, the secretary of the interior said the end of U.S. oil supplies was in sight. Having learned nothing from its earlier erroneous energy claims, in 1974, the U.S. Geological Survey said that the U.S. had only a 10-year supply of natural gas. However, the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated that as of Jan. 1, 2017, there were about 2,459 trillion cubic feet of dry natural gas in the United States. That&#8217;s enough to last us for nearly a century. The United States is the largest producer of natural gas worldwide.
Today&#8217;s wild predictions about climate doom are likely to be just as true as yesteryear&#8217;s. The major difference is today&#8217;s Americans are far more gullible and more likely to spend trillions fighting global warming. And the only result is that we&#8217;ll be much poorer and less free.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

Smoking earth.

WILLIAMS: Idiotic Environmental Predictions

Al Gore

“Save the Planet, Eat the Children,” reads a T-shirt at a congresswoman’s townhall. Meanwhile, a teenager skipping school and in obvious emotional distress makes the Nobel Peace Prize shortlist for berating world leaders about a supposedly looming mass extinction.
The most privileged generation in human history — enjoying the longest, healthiest, wealthiest, and most comfortable lives men and women have ever lived — thinks the world is collapsing around us.
What a time to be alive — literally.
By nearly every measurement, from <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFV-qmLZ0NuudYAuYJ2Rzm28twpLw">child mortality</a> and <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHePsamAKl6ekYQcrrY5TLm1R0Pug">life expectancy</a> to <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGENUK1bk7Q4MhL78k-Xp4EtpShNQ">poverty</a> and <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/global-rise-of-education" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ourworldindata.org/global-rise-of-education&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEGEd-ZWikheMRExDu_5hxw3pe3mQ">education</a>, quality of life around the globe is better than it’s ever been. In much of the world, subsistence living is a thing of the past and humanity is flourishing — especially those with ready access to electricity.
The Industrial Revolution, when an unprecedented boom of technological innovation transformed agrarian America into the nation we know today, wasn’t just a time of economic change and scientific progress. It propelled humanity to the most prosperous time in our history.
Once a rare treasure, electricity now powers everything we touch. It provides the essentials like clean running water and warmth in the winter and the luxuries like Instagram and Amazon Prime. It powers the institutions we depend on: Our banks, law enforcement agencies, doctor’s offices, farms, plants, stores, and schools. Similarly, affordable and dependable cars allow us to travel freely, farther, and more often than our ancestors could have fathomed, giving us the ability to do business over long distances and travel for mere pleasure.
Not everyone in the world enjoys these benefits. <a href="https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2018/october/population-without-access-to-electricity-falls-below-1-billion.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2018/october/population-without-access-to-electricity-falls-below-1-billion.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGkBVWKl3QRg9HP7wmzsfImII-E4Q">Nearly a billion people</a> still don’t have access to electricity or any of the benefits that come along with it. These are communities where medieval-sounding diseases like cholera and dysentery still reign — where life expectancies lag 20 to 30 years behind those of the developed West.
Lest we think this fate is reserved for the third world, Venezuela represents a cautionary tale on the consequences of losing the precious resource that is electricity. In March, a week-long blackout in Venezuela <a href="https://www.univision.com/noticias/america-latina/denuncian-ongs-apagon-deja-al-menos-43-pacientes-muertos-en-venezuela" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.univision.com/noticias/america-latina/denuncian-ongs-apagon-deja-al-menos-43-pacientes-muertos-en-venezuela&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGcSsuVM7gANRn37W58N2RuVZdTQg">left more than 40 people dead</a> because hospitals couldn’t provide basic medical care, including routine procedures like dialysis. Even now, electricity and critical healthcare infrastructure are spotty at Venezuelan hospitals, leading one doctor to <a href="https://www.voanews.com/americas/venezuelas-health-system-crumbles-pregnant-women-flee-colombia" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.voanews.com/americas/venezuelas-health-system-crumbles-pregnant-women-flee-colombia&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFTereS0PNjj9eddTaMm_sysA3llA">turn pregnant patients away</a> and send them instead to neighboring Colombia.
These are the dangers we should be worried about — real threats to human health and safety — not the overblown dangers of slightly warmer weather.
For all the environmentalist movement’s hand-wringing, you’d think our extinction was scheduled to commence tomorrow. But despite the wildly popular and equally wildly misinterpreted trope that all scientists agree the world is ending, there is no concrete evidence right now to suggest climate change will be anything but mild and manageable, or that we won’t be able to handle it.
Humans are becoming more resilient to mild changes in average temperature. Migration trends show Americans are readily moving to warmer states. Even more crucially, deaths due to climate-related natural disasters have <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bjornlomborg/photos/a.221758208967/10157523426118968/?type=3&amp;theater" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/bjornlomborg/photos/a.221758208967/10157523426118968/?type%3D3%26theater&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHYbbVUXNuE7QAthyq61foEpYcXIw">declined by a providential 98.9%</a>. That is thanks to our modern-day technology, which allows meteorologists to more accurately predict storm patterns and near-instant communication keeping the public better informed and prepared. It’s the reason the Great Galveston Storm of 1900 claimed more 8,000 lives, but a recent storm of similar magnitude on the Texas coast — Hurricane Harvey — killed <a href="https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092017_Harvey.pdf" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092017_Harvey.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGAP7yUHs6AskA77v_va6sZyGkWdQ">just 68</a>. We can and should work to improve disaster readiness, but we should do so without the fear-mongering.
Given how much society has transformed since the Industrial Revolution, the potential of future generations to spread the health and prosperity we enjoy around the world should be limitless.
Yet climate change hysteria is plaguing an entire generation with a crippling fear of the future. Not only is foisting this burden on today’s children and young adults <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11776098/climate-change-despair-is-real-this-is-how-you-fight-it" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.kqed.org/news/11776098/climate-change-despair-is-real-this-is-how-you-fight-it&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570639679393000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGiBAxEYtUOfmSaYQxv_1-VnmeYtg">unhealthy</a> — it’s simply unfair to limit the younger generation’s potential to contribute to the innovations that will drive the future. Young leaders should be empowered to pursue their passions and encouraged to experiment with new solutions, just as the greatest innovators of the past have done.
We live in the healthiest, most prosperous, most resilient time in human history. It is unfortunate that climate alarmists can&#8217;t see how far we’ve come — or how bright humanity’s future can be.
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Katie Tahuahua is Communications Manager for Life:Powered, a national initiative of the <a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com">Texas Public Policy Foundation</a> to inform policymakers and the public about the value of abundant, reliable and affordable energy to the human condition.

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TAHUAHUA: The Debilitating Pessimism Of Climate Change Alarmists

On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump cheered on a Twitter user who posted a critical message of teen climate change alarmist Greta Thunberg. 
Captioning a video clip of Thunberg&#8217;s recently delivery of her grim doomsday-type message about the environment at the United Nations, the Twitter user posted: “What an actress! &#8216;I should be in school.&#8217; She’s getting the best education socialism can steal. I won’t be held hostage by someone who just got a learner’s permit. Sorry kiddo! Tell Al to try again.”
“This is all wrong. I shouldn&#8217;t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean,” Thunberg says in the CNN clip posted by the Twitter user. “Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!”
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What an actress! “I should be in school.” She’s getting the best education socialism can steal. I won’t be held hostage by someone who just got a learner’s permit. Sorry kiddo! Tell Al to try again. <a href="https://t.co/1VIaJoIyBA">pic.twitter.com/1VIaJoIyBA</a>
&mdash; Kellie (@Opinion8dKellie) <a href="https://twitter.com/Opinion8dKellie/status/1176182239954186240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump quote-tweeted the post and added, “Keep up the great work Kellie!”
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Keep up the great work Kellie! <a href="https://t.co/PcAnK009EW">https://t.co/PcAnK009EW</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1179710734030249984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Thunberg’s extreme U.N. speech claimed that “people are dying” and “entire ecosystems are collapsing” due to mass inaction on climate change. 
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” she said. “And yet I&#8217;m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”
“How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you’re doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight,” Thunberg continued. “You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act then you would be evil and that I refuse to believe.”
“You are failing us but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal,” she added. “The eyes of all future generations are upon you and if you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now, is where we draw the line the world is waking up and change is coming whether you like it or not.”
Trump remarked on Thunberg’s alarmist speech, sarcastically tweeting about how cheerful and happy the teenager seems. 
“She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!” the president posted. 
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She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see! <a href="https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO">https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1176339522113679360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Thunberg reasoned with a change to her Twitter bio, which now reads: “A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.”
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-trolls-greta-greta-swipes-back-james-barrett">The Daily Wire</a>, Thunberg’s radical U.N. speech was praised by the Left and, to a large extent, their allies in the mainstream media. But critics in the middle and on the Right took issue with the use of Thunberg as a “<a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/23/tucker-carlson-greta-thunberg-leftists-power/">human shield</a>” for their extremist political agenda. Others, highlighting Thunberg’s obvious irrational anxiety over the climate, likened her use in the movement to a form of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52151/walsh-greta-thunberg-child-abuse-victim-matt-walsh">child abuse</a>.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52150/backlash-critics-lambast-melodramatic-greta-ryan-saavedra">BACKLASH: Critics Lambast Melodramatic Greta Thunberg Speech As ‘Child Abuse’</a>

Trump Cheers On Post Critical Of Greta Thunberg

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The entire American left — the mainstream media, the environmentalist movement and Democratic politicians in particular — are celebrating the involvement of teenagers and even younger children in protesting the world&#8217;s &#8220;inaction&#8221; with regard to global warming.
And not just the American left, of course. The left throughout the world is celebrating. A 16-year-old Swedish girl whose contempt for adults is breathtaking is an international hero. Congressional Democrats invited her to testify in Congress, and the United Nations has likewise invited her.
The mayor and city council of New York City further politicized their city&#8217;s public schools by allowing students to skip school to actively participate in a global warming protest.
The message of young climate change activists is: &#8220;You adults aren&#8217;t doing your job. As a result, we have no future.&#8221; As a sympathetic reporter — are there any non-sympathetic reporters? — for the Los Angeles Times put it, &#8220;(T)eens are still waiting for a sign that their elders get it.&#8221;
The Times&#8217; coverage is typical. It reported: &#8220;Underneath the activism lies a simple truth: Young people are incredibly scared about climate change. They see it as a profound injustice and an existential threat to their generation and those that will follow. &#8230;
&#8220;&#8216;They do worry, and they worry kind of a lot,&#8217; said Maria Ojala, an environmental psychologist at Orebro University in Sweden. &#8230;
&#8220;Arielle Martinez Cohen&#8221; — an 18-year-old Los Angeles activist with the youth climate group Zero Hour — &#8220;remembers reading a report from an Australian think tank that warned the human species could face extinction by 2050 if society doesn&#8217;t get its act together.
&#8220;&#8216;I almost imagine, like, an apocalypse-type thing happening,&#8217; Arielle said.
&#8220;Many young people say they can&#8217;t fathom bringing kids of their own into the world. &#8230;
&#8220;&#8216;It&#8217;s not ethical. It&#8217;s literally a burning house,&#8217; Lana said.
&#8220;&#8216;That&#8217;s something that&#8217;s not realistic,&#8217; agreed her twin sister, Yena.
&#8220;And how can they even think about college or contemplate their careers when faced with so much uncertainty?
&#8220;&#8216;It&#8217;s something I feel every single day,&#8217; Yena said. &#8216;I work really hard at school and I do all these things, and I&#8217;m like, &#8220;What am I working for? Do I have a future?&#8221;&#8216;&#8221;
It is critical to remember that hysterias — such as Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, &#8220;endemic and systemic racism in America,&#8221; the heterosexual AIDS &#8220;crisis&#8221; in America and the &#8220;rape culture&#8221; on American college campuses — are to the left what oxygen is to biological life. No oxygen, no life; no hysteria, no left.
Apparently, however, the left-wing hysteria about global warming leading to the virtual extinction of life on Earth has not moved enough adults. Many adults who do not deny that the Earth is getting warmer — such as Danish writer and environmentalist thinker Bjorn Lomborg — do deny that the threat is &#8220;existential&#8221; and do believe that the left&#8217;s solutions, such as the Green New Deal, will damage the world far more than will carbon emissions. Proof that the left is hysterical is its unwillingness to promote nuclear power — a completely clean, non-fossil fuel-based source of power. It provides France with 70 percent of its energy. Anyone who really believes life on Earth is endangered would grasp at the nuclear power lifeboat. That they do not proves what many of us have believed from the beginning: The &#8220;existential threat&#8221; scenario is another left-wing falsehood used to whip up hysteria that will lead to the left&#8217;s control of the economy and society.
And that takes us back to the children: If you can&#8217;t sell your hysteria to adults, try kids. And that is what the left has done. After all, no one is as malleable or as easily indoctrinated as children.
Consider this: If the left didn&#8217;t tell them the world is going to end, they wouldn&#8217;t worry about it. They&#8217;d be enjoying their young lives, maybe even learning to appreciate that they live in the freest country at the most prosperous time in human history. Instead, thanks to leftists (who are children in adult bodies), they live in their grip of &#8220;existential eco-anxiety.&#8221;
This is but one more way in which the left abuses children (along with telling them they are neither boys nor girls but whatever they later choose to be; teaching them contempt for their country; and depriving them of the greatest source of morality, meaning, community and happiness — any of the Judeo-Christian religions).
It&#8217;s depressing, and it&#8217;s frightening.
The scariest movies are those featuring brainwashed children. This horror show is happening in real life.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in April 2018, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Exodus. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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PRAGER: If You Can&#8217;t Sell Your Hysteria To Adults, Try Kids

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Teenaged climate icon Greta Thunberg has been converting thousands to the environmental cause, but not every anti-climate change activist is thrilled with her sudden rise to fame.
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel-prize-peace/a-nobel-for-swedens-greta-thunberg-a-tough-decision-for-prize-committee-idUSKBN1WA18Z?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=twitter">Reuters reports</a> that Thunberg has made enemies among the old school eco-agitators with her &#8220;confrontational&#8221; style, largely because Thunberg calls out climate &#8220;hypocrites,&#8221; including those activists, like Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio and former Vice President Al Gore, for taking carbon-spewing private flights to major environmental conferences — and, really, using airplanes at all.
The new &#8220;green generation&#8221; has commercial and private air travel in its sights, not simply because airplanes consume fossil fuels and emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which they claim is slowly warming the planet, but because they oppose widespread industrialization altogether and view saving the environment as a side benefit of instituting major economic change across the globe.
As committed as they are to battling climate change, some are even more committed to battling &#8220;capitalism,&#8221; which they seem to believe is the only reason we have &#8220;man made climate change&#8221; (even though Communist states often are forced to embrace inefficient industry). The authors of the Green New Deal, for example, propose that the United States eliminate domestic air travel by fiat, replacing it with coast-to-coast, government-run train travel.
Thunberg has been aggressive in her opposition to air travel, pushing the hashtag #flightshame to name and shame those eco-lecturers who still rely on modern technology. Her colleagues were among those, for example, who called out Britain&#8217;s Prince Harry for claiming to be at the forefront of climate activism in an interview — even going so far a to encourage people to limit their procreation in the name of preserving the planet — right before he and his family boarded a private jet to Elton John&#8217;s European villa.
Late last year, Thunberg, who even took a ship to the United Nations General Assembly (she may take a shared commercial flight home), tweeted that she was dedicated to seeing that her generation used airplanes only for emergency travel.
&#8220;My generation won’t be able to fly other than for emergencies, in a foreseeable future if we are to be the least bit serious about the 1,5° warming limit,&#8221; she said on social media. &#8220;I will try to make it to as many places as possible without flying. And also participate via video link.<a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/istayontheground?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#istayontheground.&#8221;</a>
&#8220;Flight shaming&#8221; doesn&#8217;t sit well with old school climate activists, who, as conservative news organizations have often pointed out, don&#8217;t live quite the stripped-down existence of their more modern brethren. And, Reuters reports, a number of those activists have ties to the Nobel committee and may take the opportunity to block Thunberg, generally considered to be a frontrunner for the Peace Prize, from taking the medal and the substantial financial reward for her work.
“The problem is that the principle of ‘flight shame’ brings her chances … down. Shame is not a constructive feeling to bring about change,&#8221; one insider told the media company.
Conservatives have criticized Thunberg for pushing an environmental agenda that masks major economic change at the behest of socialists and for parroting dire warnings of an environmental apocalypse that likely isn&#8217;t in the cards. But conservatives aren&#8217;t able to restrict Thunberg in any way. This criticism from the Left, on the other hand, might have serious consequences.
The Nobel prizes are awarded next week and Thunberg is oddsmakers favorite for the Peace Prize so far.

Greta Thunberg Shames Climate Hypocrites. It May Cost Her The Nobel Peace Prize.

Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate &#8220;activist&#8221; alarmist Greta Thunberg is all the rage right now. Thunberg, who has indubitably benefited from no shortage of formal public communication training, <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1176149492698992641">speaks</a> with the moral certitude and dripping condescension so characteristic of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51556/hammer-bernies-pagan-support-child-sacrifice-josh-hammer">broader pagan cult</a> that is &#8220;climate change&#8221; alarmism. Oppose the proposed totalitarian, socialist &#8220;remedies&#8221; for such a purported pandemic and one is called a &#8220;climate denier&#8221; at best — or a depraved madman at worst. While evidence is thus far lacking, the <a href="https://www.tellerreport.com/tech/greta-thunberg--how-big-is-the-influence-of-your-mentor-.S1bXoGcuV.html">circumstantial totality</a> suggests the real possibility that, much like the well-organized Left during the Kavanaugh confirmation imbroglio, there may be a <a href="https://theresurgent.com/2019/09/24/not-to-put-too-fine-a-point-on-it-but/">&#8220;well-orchestrated and well-funded P.R. campaign&#8221;</a> here whose over-arching goal is the shaming of free market-oriented dissenters into submission at the pagan altar of enviro-statism.
The notion that policymakers ought to consider proposing policy due to the fraught and hysterical pleas of a 16-year-old is, naturally, <a href="https://theresurgent.com/2019/09/24/we-should-not-set-global-policy-based-on-a-16-year-old-with-a-developmental-disorder/">insane</a>. And the use of Thunberg herself — who <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/this-greta-thunberg-thing-is-child-abuse">apparently began suffering</a> from depression as a child — as the leading global enviro-statist prop is, as Amanda Prestigiacomo put it, downright unethical.
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My Daily Wire colleague Matt Walsh is correct that the deification of Thunberg amounts to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52151/walsh-greta-thunberg-child-abuse-victim-matt-walsh">child abuse</a>. Indeed, the use of Thunberg as an emotionally compelling prop for zealous socialists foaming at the mouth for any excuse to enact anti-capitalistic policy ought to harken us all back to the last time leftists glommed onto malleable teenagers for use as political props: The aftermath of the school shooting in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/27443/watch-dana-loesch-called-murderer-cnn-gun-control-james-barrett">Parkland, Florida</a>. Then, as now, the Left cynically decided that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/17662/stop-alinskyization-american-right-josh-hammer">easiest means</a> by which to accomplish its ends was via the public trotting out of minors as spokespersons to emotionally manipulate a gullible public.
But such a tendentious use of minors for the promotion and advancement of a political agenda is not just wrong. It is affirmatively evil.
One can tell a lot about a society by how it treats children. In the United States, the eradication of mass legalized child labor via the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act represents that rare FDR/New Deal-era policy achievement about which even conservatives can be proud. Contrast that with the <a href="https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/worst-countries-for-child-labor.html">ubiquitous child labor</a> that still exists in much of the Third World, and one sees a paradigmatic example of what sets apart the more advanced from the more barbaric civilizations. The darker <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-live-to-tell-inside-the-world-of-child-sex-trafficking-and-ashton-kutchers-high-tech-approach-to-saving-victims/">world of child sex trafficking</a> is, of course, far more harrowing still.
The <a href="https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791231/obo-9780199791231-0161.xml">innocence of children</a> is something that every proper society ought to cherish and nourish. Tim Lott <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/may/10/what-is-childhood-innocence">described</a> well this sort of innocence for The Guardian in 2013: &#8220;Innocence goes deeper than ignorance. It is some mysterious operation of the imagination, the part that can enter into mental universes from which one is soon to be forever excluded.&#8221; Societies that aim to maintain the pristine nature of childhood — with its lack of adult responsibility, simplicity, carefree nature, and purity all remaining intact — are societies that ought to be lauded. Societies that disabuse children of their innocence and foist upon children the responsibilities and sundry pitfalls of adulthood are societies that ought to be chastised. Even Hollywood, with its longstanding lionization of the child actor, is worthy of no small amount of scorn.
By all means, teenagers ought to be encouraged to think deeply about issues of global importance. They ought to be encouraged to educate themselves on current events and begin the slow, lifelong process of discovering the nature of truth. But to cynically prop up a teenager as an avatar for a political movement so as to better emotionally manipulate the masses as to the correctness of your political position is no act of valiance. It is an act of cowardice, an act of innocence deprival, an act of evil.

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HAMMER: Using Children To Advance Your Political Agenda Isn’t Just Wrong. It’s Evil.

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Greta Thunberg famously sailed to America on her climate crusade. One wonders why she didn&#8217;t go to China. One wonders why, by and large, Western countries have to absorb the brunt of the finger-wagging lectures from climate activists. On Monday, legions of concerned and thoughtful climate activists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52135/watch-most-memorable-moments-shut-down-dc-climate-emily-zanotti">swarmed the streets</a> of Washington, D.C., to twerk and throw trash. Why don&#8217;t they take their traveling show to Indonesia or India?
Indeed, there is a giant, gaping, Asia-sized hole in our correct conversation about climate change. I tend to agree with George Carlin&#8217;s negative <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c">assessment</a> of the &#8220;save the planet&#8221; rhetoric, but if the planet really does need to be saved, and if we really are capable of saving it, all of our efforts will be for naught if Asia does not join the crusade. Really, Asia should be leading the crusade, as they are the ones causing most of the problem. Far be it for me to finger point, but most of the planet abuse is happening in its Eastern hemisphere.
As Forbes <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2018/07/01/china-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-than-the-u-s-and-eu-combined/#3c09e88a628c">notes</a>, China alone produces more carbon dioxide than the U.S., Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the U.K. combined. Add India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Japan into the mix, and the Asia Pacific region accounts, by itself, for 50% of the world&#8217;s carbon emissions. The air pollution is so severe in China that solar panels there <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90375916/chinas-air-pollution-is-so-bad-solar-panels-no-longer-work">don&#8217;t work</a>. After all, it&#8217;s difficult to harness the energy of the sun if its rays can&#8217;t sufficiently penetrate through all the toxins and filth in the air.
It&#8217;s even worse with water pollution. While Americans are scolded for their plastic straws and utensils, Asia continues to dump millions of tons of garbage into the world&#8217;s water supply. Five Asian countries put more plastic in the ocean than every other country on Earth <a href="https://oceanconservancy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/full-report-stemming-the.pdf">combined</a>. Many rivers in Asia function as glorified conveyor belts for trash and human waste. The <a href="https://ibanplastic.com/top-10-most-polluted-rivers-in-the-world/">majority of the filthiest rivers</a> on the planet are in Asia. It&#8217;s bad enough that a fisherman in Indonesia <a href="https://www.chron.com/weird/article/Indonesia-Citarum-fishing-dead-body-Jakarta-12969867.php">recently</a> thought he hooked a big fish, only to find a decomposing human body on the other end of his line. That river, the Citarum, <a href="https://thediplomat.com/2018/04/indonesias-citarum-the-worlds-most-polluted-river/">absorbs</a> about 20,000 tons of waste every day. All of it is then ferried into the ocean. We could load every plastic straw in America into a giant cannon and shoot the whole bundle into the sun and it wouldn&#8217;t even make a dent in the water pollution problem. Overall, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4970214/95-plastic-oceans-comes-just-TEN-rivers.html">95%</a> of the plastic deposited in the ocean from rivers comes from Asia or Africa. That leaves just 5% to divide between the remaining one-third of the world population.
All of this leads back to my first question: Why isn&#8217;t Greta Thunberg delivering her sermons in China or India? Why do environmental activists focus almost all of their ire on exactly the regions of the world that contribute least to the problem? The answer, of course, is optics. The media wouldn&#8217;t feel quite so warm and fuzzy about the spectacle of a white girl screaming at a non-white audience. An American environmentalist who goes to Indonesia to scold its inhabitants for treating their rivers like garbage cans will not be as widely celebrated as one who stays here in the states and rages against plastic cups. And at the end of the day, environmentalism has little to do with the environment. It is more about money and power for politicians and self-aggrandizement for the activists blocking traffic in D.C.

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WALSH: Asia Is Responsible For The Vast Majority Of Air And Water Pollution. Greta Thunberg Should Go Lecture Them.

The following is satirical.
The Left has hit on a brilliant new plan called &#8220;Selling Bad Ideas Through Child Abuse.&#8221; Left-wing activist Connie Heartless extolled the new strategy to a meeting of beneficiaries of left-wing policies living in tents under the Manhattan Bridge. Ms. Heartless said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why we didn&#8217;t think of this before. All these years, we&#8217;ve been trying to seize people&#8217;s guns and take over the economy through spreading panic about violence and climate change among adults. We missed the obvious flaw in that plan: adults have fully developed brains and the capacity to reason. But children can be easily terrorized by our propaganda and then used as spokespeople to spread that terror to others.&#8221;
When asked whether terrorizing teenagers into pushing gun and climate panic wasn&#8217;t a form of child abuse, Ms. Heartless said, &#8220;What sort of evil right-winger would pick on these poor children when they are clearly being abused for political purposes. Instead we should be celebrating the courage of those children who have overcome the fact that they&#8217;re being abused by climate change activists in order to become spokespeople for the climate change activists who are abusing them.&#8221;
In a speech to the Organization of World Leaders Trying to Seize Economic Power by Spreading Climate Panic — or U.N. for short — Ms Heartless said, &#8220;How dare we pull these children out of school to spread panic about climate change when they could be in school not studying because we&#8217;ve convinced them they&#8217;re all going to die because of climate change.&#8221; As Ms. Heartless spoke, she proudly pointed to several climate change spokes-children curled up in a corner sucking their thumbs and rocking themselves compulsively.
Ms. Heartless also added her praise of traumatized children being used to spread panic about guns, saying, &#8220;If we don&#8217;t abandon the Constitution to stop these young people from being abused then we must go on abusing them.&#8221;
Ms. Heartless&#8217;s speech brought the U.N. audience to their feet, chanting, &#8220;Give us all the power or we&#8217;ll continue to abuse your children.&#8221; It was a triumphant moment. For child abuse.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52151/walsh-greta-thunberg-child-abuse-victim-matt-walsh">WALSH: Greta Thunberg Is A Child Abuse Victim</a>

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Left’s Brilliant New Strategy: Selling Bad Ideas Through Child Abuse [Satire]

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President Donald Trump hilariously trolled far-left climate extremist Greta Thunberg on Monday night after Thunberg gave a widely criticized speech at the United Nations.
Thunberg delivered a melodramatic speech in which she repeatedly condemned adults, saying, &#8220;how dare you!&#8221; while claiming &#8220;we are in the beginning of a mass extinction.&#8221;
Trump responded to the speech by tweeting: &#8220;She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see! <a href="https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO">https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1176339522113679360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Leftists instantly went into freakout mode over the tweet, declaring that Trump had &#8220;officially broken&#8221; them.
Willie Garson <a href="https://twitter.com/WillieGarson/status/1176345253667696640">tweeted</a>: &#8220;He has now officially broken me. A horrible evil world leader, trolling a 16 year old with Asperger&#8217;s, for passionately discussing scientific facts. And the comments support him. I&#8217;m done, these people are not decent, Patriots, or humans. We are amidst monsters.&#8221;
Amr Khalifa <a href="https://twitter.com/Cairo67Unedited/status/1176340385607667713">tweeted</a>: &#8220;The most unfeeling &#8216;person&#8217; on earth bullying a teenager who has done more with her life at 16 than he has done in 4 times the lifespan. #GretaThurnberg&#8221;
John Aravois <a href="https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1176343943979708417">tweeted</a>: &#8220;Tell me again why Trump’s minor son can’t even be mentioned by name while he attacks a 16 y.o. girl.&#8221;
Charles Johnson <a href="https://twitter.com/Green_Footballs/status/1176345830065766402">tweeted</a>: &#8220;This is the president of the US, joining in the right wing attacks on @GretaThunberg. You knew he would, but damn.&#8221;
Transcript of Thunberg&#8217;s speech:
<blockquote>My message is that we&#8217;ll be watching you. This is all wrong, I shouldn&#8217;t be up here, I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet, you all come to us young people for hope, how dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet I&#8217;m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.
For more than 30 years the science has been crystal-clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you&#8217;re doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight. You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act then you would be evil and that I refuse to believe.
The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees and the risk of setting of irreversible chain reactions beyond human control. 50% may be acceptable to you but those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution, or the aspects of equity and climate justice, they also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist. So, a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us, we who have to live with the consequences.
How dare you pretend that this can be sold with just business as usual and some technical solutions with today&#8217;s emissions levels that remaining CO2 budgets will be entirely gone within less than 8 and a half years. There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures here today because these numbers are too uncomfortable and you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are failing us but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you and if you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now, is where we draw the line the world is waking up and change is coming whether you like it or not.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52150/backlash-critics-lambast-melodramatic-greta-ryan-saavedra">BACKLASH: Critics Lambast Melodramatic Greta Thunberg Speech As ‘Child Abuse’</a>

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Trump Trolls Greta Thunberg Over ‘Mass Extinction’ Speech, Internet Explodes

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old girl selected by the media to be the poster child of climate alarmism, gave another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52122/greta-snaps-we-are-beginning-mass-extinction-how-ryan-saavedra">hysterical speech</a> on Monday. This time, at the U.N., she declared that the Earth is undergoing a &#8220;mass extinction&#8221; which, she warns, probably cannot be averted.
&#8220;How dare you,&#8221; the distraught teen cried. &#8220;You have stolen my dreams and my childhood.&#8221; On one level, I can relate to this sentiment because it&#8217;s exactly what I said after watching the &#8220;Lion King&#8221; remake. On another level, as a parent, I find this girl very hard to watch. It is obvious that she really believes her delusional doomsday fantasies. That is because they are not her fantasies — she is merely repeating what she has been told by adults who know better.
Thunberg, as the media likes to remind us, is autistic and OCD. This section of a Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/greta-thunberg-is-the-climate-heroine-we-need">profile</a> gives us a brief outline of her psychological issues:
<blockquote>But thanks to the formal diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome coupled with high-functioning autism and obsessive compulsive disorder, the now-16-year-old Swede has become quite literally the poster child for the generation that will have to deal with the destruction of our planet. Once she started receiving multifaceted treatment, Thunberg was able to channel her anxiety into something we should all be concerned about: The health of the planet and the science behind apocalyptic warnings of its demise.
In October 2018, Thunberg started having anxiety-ridden 3 a.m. nightmares, but unlike before, they were not about her. The recurring nightmares were about the impact of global warming on the planet, according to the book, Scenes From the Heart, she wrote with her parents and sister Beata, who also suffers from many of the same emotional conditions.
This time, instead of holing up in her bedroom as she did before treatment, she decided that her anxiety about the climate needed to become everyone else&#8217;s, too. One of the aspects of her complicated diagnosis is obsession. Her family says she just wouldn&#8217;t let the idea go that the planet was burning up and there was ample science to prove it.</blockquote>
The Daily Beast recounts all of this like we shouldn&#8217;t be concerned. But what we&#8217;re being told is that an obsessive, mentally troubled young girl came to believe — <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/no-climate-change-will-not-end-the-world-in-12-years/">mistakenly</a> — that the apocalypse is upon us. Rather than calm these terrible fears, and redirect her in a healthier direction, the adults in her life have only encouraged her paranoia. And now the media is only too happy to exploit her fear in order to stoke even more fear. Creating fear with fear. That is the media&#8217;s specialty.
This is child abuse. If any grown up in Thunberg&#8217;s life really cared about her psychological and emotional well-being, they would sit her down and explain that climate change is not going to destroy human civilization. Yes, the climate is changing. Climates tend to do that. But whatever role humans play in that process, and to whatever degree, it is not going to result in the end of all life as we know it. Talk of a 10-year, or 12-year, or 20-year, timeline before planetary catastrophe is all an invention of politicians and media personalities. Scientists don&#8217;t speak this way.
When I was a child, they told us of an imminent future without rainforests. Well, I am now living in that imminent future and the rainforests are <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rainforests/tropical-rainforests-are-regrowing-now-what-idUSTRE50B5CY20090112">doing okay</a>. Sure, there was a problem with deforestation. We were cutting down more trees than we should have. But the dystopian vision of a world without trees was — and I couldn&#8217;t have known this at the time, because I was just a kid — completely insane. It is possible to say &#8220;trees are good and we shouldn&#8217;t wantonly destroy them&#8221; without adding &#8220;and soon all the trees will be gone and you will suffocate.&#8221; But the environmental alarmists always choose to tack on the apocalyptic bit at the end, undermining the validity of their message and creating unnecessary panic.
Once again, we must call this what it is: Child abuse. It may be a smart political move to traumatize children with these End Times prophecies, but it is morally abominable. Yes, tell kids to recycle, pick up trash, plant trees — all fine and worthwhile pursuits. But the hysteria is entirely unjustified. Let kids be kids. They shouldn&#8217;t have to wake up every morning with hallucinatory fears about the planet&#8217;s demise.

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WALSH: Greta Thunberg Is A Child Abuse Victim

Critics responded strongly to a speech given by far-left climate extremist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations on Monday, saying that the apparent level of emotional distress she appears to be dealing with constitutes &#8220;child abuse.&#8221;
Thunberg made waves after she gave a melodramatic speech warning of &#8220;mass extinction&#8221; while attacking capitalism as &#8220;fairytales of eternal economic growth.&#8221;
Thunberg, who repeatedly declared &#8220;how dare you!&#8221; in an arrogant manner, also claimed: &#8220;You have stolen my dreams and my childhood.&#8221;
Critics weighed in on her speech, calling it &#8220;child abuse,&#8221; &#8220;disturbing,&#8221; &#8220;exceptionally creepy,&#8221; &#8220;scary,&#8221; &#8220;insanity,&#8221; &#8220;fanaticism,&#8221; and &#8220;propaganda.&#8221;
Here is some of the reaction her speech garnered online:
Federalist editor David Harsanyi tweeted: &#8220;The idea that they can use a kid as a political shield, give her immense coverage, and then no [one] is allowed to talk about the substance of her arguments because she is a kid &#8230; is just silly. It&#8217;s the same with the gun-control kid. He says tons of ridiculous things that are then amplified by media. Yet, people get mad when you point it out. Hey, don&#8217;t use kids for your political causes. I hate when either side does it.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">It&#8217;s the same with the gun-control kid. He says tons of ridiculous things that are then amplified by media. Yet, people get mad when you point it out. Hey, don&#8217;t use kids for your political causes. I hate when either side does it.
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1176219806854500354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Human Events managing editor Ian Miles Cheong tweeted: &#8220;Am I a bad person for thinking children shouldn&#8217;t be used as political props like Greta Thunberg?&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-cards="hidden" data-lang="en">Am I a bad person for thinking children shouldn’t be used as political props like Greta Thunberg? <a href="https://t.co/kGEErp35Jn">pic.twitter.com/kGEErp35Jn</a>
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1176167514969001984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Federalist co-founder Ben Domenech tweeted: &#8220;We need to have a national conversation about the rising problem of arrogant teenage Swedes.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">We need to have a national conversation about the rising problem of arrogant teenage Swedes.
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) <a href="https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/1176199727244873728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Republican strategist Chris Barron tweeted: &#8220;This is straight up child abuse. I hope the left is proud of the way it treats everyone and everything as disposable pawns in their game for political power.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">This is straight up child abuse. I hope the left is proud of the way it treats everyone and everything as disposable pawns in their game for political power. <a href="https://t.co/7Lyyze1tqm">https://t.co/7Lyyze1tqm</a>
— Chris Barron (@ChrisRBarron) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisRBarron/status/1176226896792698885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Elisha Krauss tweeted: &#8220;This is heartbreaking and disturbing to me. Environmental activists and her crappy parents have stolen her childhood, not capitalism and the UN.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">This is heartbreaking and disturbing to me. Environmental activists and her crappy parents have stolen her childhood, not capitalism and the UN. <a href="https://t.co/FLw8CXvLps">https://t.co/FLw8CXvLps</a>
— Elisha (@ElishaKrauss) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElishaKrauss/status/1176208701746601984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Radio host Jason Rantz tweeted: &#8220;This isn&#8217;t powerful; it&#8217;s insanity.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">This isn&#8217;t powerful; it&#8217;s insanity. <a href="https://t.co/KDN03Raqjh">https://t.co/KDN03Raqjh</a>
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1176186211439767552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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David Reaboi tweeted: &#8220;All of you &#8216;climate activists&#8217; are lunatic communists. And if you think your hysteria will result in even the smallest political concession from the people you&#8217;re longing to enslave economically, you&#8217;re sadly mistaken. Not one f**king inch for your lunatic death cult.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Not one fucking inch for your lunatic death cult.
— David Reaboi (@davereaboi) <a href="https://twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1176250632900153344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Conservative commentator Erick Erickson tweeted: &#8220;Children of the Corn level scary here. They&#8217;re going to move quickly to violence to overthrow democratic governments.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Children of the Corn level scary here. They’re going to move quickly to violence to overthrow democratic governments. <a href="https://t.co/6Hia5xcC6z">https://t.co/6Hia5xcC6z</a>
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) <a href="https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1176170179975360512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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CNN law enforcement analyst James Gagliano tweeted: &#8220;Can&#8217;t imagine in &#8217;81, as 16-year old, lecturing my parents, high school teachers, Reagan administration, House Majority under Speaker O&#8217;Neill, United Nations General Assembly, other foreign gov&#8217;t leaders, or ANY adult, for that matter, that &#8216;You are still not mature enough &#8230; &#8216;&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Can’t imagine in ‘81, as 16-year old, lecturing my parents, high school teachers, Reagan administration, House Majority under Speaker O’Neill, United Nations General Assembly, other foreign gov’t leaders, or ANY adult, for that matter, that “You are still not mature enough&#8230;” <a href="https://t.co/geWhquu5rb">https://t.co/geWhquu5rb</a>
— James A. Gagliano (@JamesAGagliano) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesAGagliano/status/1176227756604108800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk tweeted: &#8220;The same people who say we can&#8217;t criticize 16-year old ANTIFA climate activist Greta Von Thunburg &#8230; Spent months shamelessly attacking the Covington Catholic High School kids — just because they supported our president&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">The same people who say we can’t criticize 16-year old ANTIFA climate activist Greta Von Thunburg
&#8230;Spent months shamelessly attacking the Covington Catholic High School kids—just because they supported our president
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1176155993886969856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Candace Owens tweeted: &#8220;One day, #GretaThunberg will realize that she is a victim of child abuse, not climate change. I genuinely find the video circulating of her to be sad. The Left is stooping to new lows with this blatant example of child exploitation.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">One day, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GretaThunberg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GretaThunberg</a> will realize that she is a victim of child abuse, not climate change.
I genuinely find the video circulating of her to be sad.
The Left is stooping to new lows with this blatant example of child exploitation.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1176251096819367936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Stephen Miller tweeted: &#8220;When you hide behind teenage kids like David Hogg and Greta Thunberg and use them for human shields like you are now, what you&#8217;re really saying is &#8216;Hey my political arguments can&#8217;t be made by functioning, well-adjusted adults.'&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">When you hide behind teenage kids like David Hogg and Greta Thunberg and use them for human shields like you are now, what you&#8217;re really saying is &#8220;Hey my political arguments can&#8217;t be made by functioning, well-adjusted adults.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/7HbPWGnsad">https://t.co/7HbPWGnsad</a>
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1176262611010117632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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BACKLASH: Critics Lambast Melodramatic Greta Thunberg Speech As ‘Child Abuse’

World leaders and activists will gather this week in New York City for the United Nations Climate Action Summit. President Trump will not be attending &#8212; for good reason.
The modern climate movement has proved itself not only dishonest, but also increasingly ineffective where it supposedly matters: Reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Exhibit A is the fact that the United States leads the world in emission reductions, while active signatories to the Paris Agreement &#8212; the historical agreement that we are told represents the pinnacle of global climate action &#8212; have not produced meaningful emission reductions, and in some instances continue to significantly increase their emissions.
Missing from the globalist fanfare and hashtag diplomacy at the U.N. Summit is an honest conversation. Getting away from fuzzy projections, which the climate conversation tends to stubbornly revolve around, observed science suggests that ongoing climate change is much more <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2015/12/17/climate-models-versus-climate-reality/">benign and manageable</a> than alarmists would suggest. Improving our understanding of climate change is important, as are affiliated policy discussions, but most of the conversations to date have produced little more than driving an entire generation into an unhealthy state of perpetual anxiety.
The truth is that we know how to reduce emissions. In the United States, there are a range of emission control technologies, as well as efficiency improvements that are making every form of energy extraction, refinement, transport, and end use more environmentally friendly. The shining example is hydraulic fracturing, which is the main driver behind U.S. emission reductions.
Even more promising, we know how to expand the use of these technologies through an economic system that enables their large-scale adoption. This system, called <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/andy-puzder-what-trump-haters-dont-get-about-the-incredible-power-of-american-capitalism">capitalism</a>, has a history of producing efficient solutions to serious issues while creating jobs and economic prosperity.
We also know how to deal with natural disasters. While there has been no recorded change in the number or intensity of these events (per the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment), there has been a measurable change in human survivability rates. According to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-good-newsabout-natural-disasters-of-all-things-1533331596">recent work</a> by a leading environmental professor, in half a century, the average number of annual natural disaster-related fatalities has declined by more than 80%. The damage affiliated with these events as a portion of GDP has also decreased.
After 50 years of doomsday predictions that <a href="https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions">have yet to actually pan out</a>, some of the environmentalist movement&#8217;s own leaders are starting to question whether the extreme rhetoric is actually worth it. The leader of the one of the world&#8217;s foremost weather science organizations &#8212; the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) &#8212; issued a recent rebuke to climate extremism. During a September 6th <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/chief-of-world-meteorological-organization-castigates-climate-alarmists_3073666.html">speech</a>, the WMO secretary general said: &#8220;It is not going to be the end of the world. The world is just becoming more challenging.&#8221;
The secretary general&#8217;s statements reflect a growing number of climate scientists working at U.S. agencies, international organizations, and universities who quietly hate the hyperbolic rhetoric. They rightfully fear that the work of activists is not only misrepresenting their scientific work, but is also undermining it.
Meanwhile, President Trump will continue to advance his environmental agenda by focusing on tangible issues with practical solutions. His efforts are why our air is <a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-07/documents/epa_accomplishments_fact_sheet_july_2019_s.pdf">74% cleaner today</a>, our drinking water is the cleanest in the world, and U.S. greenhouse gas emissions will continue to decline much faster than will any other country&#8217;s emissions. The reality is that all the goals the climate activists purportedly want to achieve are already happening without turning the United States into a socialist country or sending billions of dollars overseas.
There are a multitude of ways someone who truly cares about the environment can make a difference. For starters, we can urge Congress to work with the president to continue our record-breaking environmental successes. Additionally, there are a number of <a href="https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/news/blog/7-for-7/">bipartisan bills</a> aimed at making incremental changes that would actually be effective at reducing emissions without putting millions of people out of work or subjecting even more to poverty.
The U.N. summit won&#8217;t change the climate or improve the environment. But in the meantime, Americans are rolling up their sleeves and getting to work &#8212; and proving we can lead on environmental protection without having to sacrifice our freedoms, personal responsibility, or economic growth.

Mandy Gunasekara is the founder of the Energy 45 Fund and a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation&#8217;s Life: Powered project. She previously served as principal deputy assistant administrator in the Office of Radiation at the Environmental Protection Agency, and as counsel to the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

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Climate alarmists <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjLhgB2eXXM">took to the streets</a> today in Washington, D.C. today with the goal of &#8220;shutting down&#8221; the city. They didn&#8217;t quite succeed in bringing about a total shutdown, but they did manage to block traffic and make life miserable for morning commuters. It remains unclear how the environment is supposed to be helped by forcing cars to sit idly for hours. In fairness, though, the protestors did more than cause traffic jams. They also <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1176128190131126273?s=20">threw trash</a> and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/climate-change-protests-disrupt-d-c-morning-commute.amp?cmpid=prn_newsstand">set dumpsters on fire</a>. And if none of those measures managed to solve global warming, surely <a href="https://twitter.com/werkforpeace/status/1176132483445919749?s=20">this guy</a> in suspenders and mini-shorts got the job done by twerking.
The perplexing scene in the nation&#8217;s capital was just the latest climate change demonstration. Last week, many people across the country participated in a &#8220;climate strike.&#8221; You may wonder how a person could go on strike against the climate — at first blush, it seems a bit like boycotting gravity or trying to change the speed of light with a Change.org petition. But it turns out that the &#8220;climate strike&#8221; was really a strike against productivity. Students left their classrooms and employed adults (what few the environmentalists can count among their ranks) left their jobs for the day. They marched and shouted things and warned about the impending apocalypse. Then they went back to their air-conditioned homes and watched TV like the rest of us.
Meanwhile, the young climate warrior Greta Thunberg was invited — for whatever reason — to speak before the U.N. She tearfully scolded the assembled diplomats today and screamed about a &#8220;mass extinction,&#8221; which, she insists, is already beginning. &#8220;You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,&#8221; she cried, sounding vaguely reminiscent of Dashboard Confessional lyrics from 2002.
For their part, a group of young environmental activists in Australia have just <a href="https://twitter.com/newscomauHQ/status/1175998223821017088?s=20">announced</a> they will not be having kids until the climate stops changing. These kinds of climate-inspired abstinence <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/19/no-future-no-children-pledge-teens-refuse-have-kids-until-climate-change-action/2372010001/">pledges</a> are becoming increasingly common. And it is just one of the myriad ways that environmental activism has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51556/hammer-bernies-pagan-support-child-sacrifice-josh-hammer">come to closely resemble</a> the one thing that many of these people probably hate the most: Religion.
It is often said that religion is &#8220;<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/christianity-dying-religion-millennials-europe-859272">dying</a>&#8221; in the West, but that is not exactly the case. Theistic faith may be waning, yet we still remain a deeply religious people. We have simply traded in our Scriptures, doctrines, and prophets for different, albeit secular, versions. Indeed, it is quite striking to consider the many ways that climate alarmism has taken on the features of a religious cult.
Environmentalism, like religion, has core beliefs that now have the force of a creed. The Earth is warming significantly and dangerously due to human activity. Any dissenting point of view — however moderate the dissent may be — is punished as heresy. Environmentalism, like religion, has scriptural authorities. Rather than the Bible, it refers back to ancient scriptures like &#8220;An Inconvenient Truth&#8221; — or to more recent epistles like the &#8220;Green New Deal.&#8221; Environmentalism, like religion, has prophets and priestesses in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Al Gore, and the like. Environmentalism, like religion, even has its newly appointed child savior in Greta Thunberg.
Of course, environmentalism, like religion, also has moral codes and precepts. Thou shalt not drive gas-guzzling vehicles. And it focuses especially, like many religions, on dietary restrictions. Thou shalt not eat meat or use plastic straws. Environmentalists, like most religious people, believe strongly in these commandments — yet they seem more interested in preaching them than following them. Not to worry, though, because environmentalism also has a system for <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/specials/climate-confessions-share-solutions-climate-change-n1054791">confession and repentance</a>, in case you have fallen short in your walk with Gaia. And environmentalism has a system of tithing — to the state, rather than the church. Thus, environmentalism, like religion, can be unfortunately easy for snake oil salesmen to exploit for personal financial gain. The televangelists of environmentalism are just as likely to fly around in private planes as the televangelists of the Christian faith.
Most importantly, environmentalism, like any self-respecting religion, has a vivid apocalyptic vision. Christians look to the Second Coming and often imagine that they detect signs of its imminent arrival. In a very similar way, environmentalists see every heat wave or hurricane as a harbinger of Armageddon. Repent for the end is nigh, proclaim the environmentalists. Christians, Jews, and Muslims may tend to agree, though for different theological reasons.
As a religious person myself, I certainly do not see anything wrong, per se, with being a member of a religion. But at least Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have the integrity to admit that they are religions. Environmentalism wishes to retain its secular credibility while demanding the sort of devotion that systems of faith require. It cannot have it both ways.

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Climate change activists took to the streets of Washington, D.C., Monday morning to grind the gears of government to a halt with a &#8220;#ShutDownDC&#8221; strike at rush hour — but they may not have been quite as effective as initially hoped.
The rally was loosely affiliated with last weeks&#8217; &#8220;Climate Strike&#8221; student marches and aimed to &#8220;shut down&#8221; the country&#8217;s capital, &#8220;disrupt the systems that created and perpetuate the climate crisis,&#8221; and block commuters from getting to their jobs by staging sit down protests and impromptu dance parties in key areas of the city.
The group planned to &#8220;shut down&#8221; &#8220;high-volume intersections, busy metro lines and Union Station,&#8221; and &#8220;planned to gather near the White House, Capitol Hill and ICE headquarters&#8221; beause the march was &#8220;intersectional&#8221; and featured a pro-immigration contingent.
By noon, around 26 people had been arrested, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/23/shut-down-dc-climate-change-activists-disrupt-washington-traffic/2416600001/">per USA Today</a>, but not much of DC had been disrupted. DC police told media that most of the blockades had been cleared by early afternoon, including the largest blockade at 16th and K Street. Some commuters reported three hour drives into work, but the lack of complaints about snarled traffic on social media belied a major flaw in the protesters&#8217; strategy: those most affected by &#8220;ShutdownDC&#8221; were low-income workers who have no work-from-home option, not lobbyists and aides who can operate remotely.
But while the #ShutDownDC march might not have accomplished its aims — namely to bring an immediate halt to the practice of capitalism in order to save the Earth — it did provide a measure of entertainment to its social media audience. And there were definitely some highlights:
First and foremost, the &#8220;face&#8221; of #ShutDownDC belongs to a group called &#8220;WERK for Peace,&#8221; which was established, its Twitter feed says, in the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting and sees its mission as bringing love to the world through interpretive dance (this is a real non-profit that has staff and a budget). They provided on-the-scene dance instruction so that climate marchers could twerk in unison to stop corporate pollution. Or something.
Prepare your eyeballs.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Climate activists turning up the heat in front of the US Capitol. Roads remained closed, gridlock could last for hours. <a href="https://t.co/iDl4Zq1Ncw">pic.twitter.com/iDl4Zq1Ncw</a>
— Sam Sweeney (@SweeneyABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/SweeneyABC/status/1176135848045285378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
At one point on the parade route, #ShutDownDC marchers battled pollution by littering the streets (and the primary twerker) with colored confetti (which they did not clean up afterward, according to bystanders).
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Out here shutting down DC for climate justice. STOP PIPELINES NOW! KEEP IT IN THE GROUND! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShutdownDC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ShutdownDC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/350_DC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@350_DC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/sunrisemvmt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sunrisemvmt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GretaThunberg</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/mdc_dsa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mdc_dsa</a> <a href="https://t.co/QntcNH6QO5">pic.twitter.com/QntcNH6QO5</a>
— WERK for Peace (@werkforpeace) <a href="https://twitter.com/werkforpeace/status/1176132483445919749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
Marchers were, apparently, protesting the construction of new oil pipelines designed to bring shale oil from Canada&#8217;s tar sands across thousands of miles to major ports and refineries. They may have already lost the battle; although the several pipelines tasked with carrying the oil may be delayed, Canada still intends to pump out its shale oil.
But twerking against carbon emissions wasn&#8217;t the only event happening in Washington, D.C., Monday morning. The &#8220;youth-driven&#8221; anti-carbon crusade also fought man-made climate change by chaining a bunch of handicapped Baby Boomers to a plastic sailboat.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Extinction Rebellion <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateStrike?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ClimateStrike</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShutDownDC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ShutDownDC</a> protesters say the sailboat blocking this intersection in NW DC is named after the Great Barrier Reef. <a href="https://t.co/1u6e3DZviT">pic.twitter.com/1u6e3DZviT</a>
— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) <a href="https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1176098544555610113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
DC police were forced to use gas guzzling portable generators to remove the protesters (and their boat).
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">D.C. police are using a buzzsaw on the boat the Shut Down D.C. climate protesters brought to the intersection at 16th and K street. <a href="https://t.co/IAIo85mIV3">pic.twitter.com/IAIo85mIV3</a>
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) <a href="https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1176111200427499522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
Speaking of gas guzzling, the climate marchers blocked at least one intersection with the world&#8217;s last remaining conversion van, which cannot possibly be an eco-friendly, energy efficient vehicle.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Climate strikers are trying to shut down infrastructure in DC by refusing to move, and laying down on vehicles blocking intersections while their supporters say its “unsafe” to tow them while they’re on it. You know what? Tow that shit. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShutDownDC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ShutDownDC</a> <a href="https://t.co/iZe6s9cLjw">pic.twitter.com/iZe6s9cLjw</a>
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1176112205873336322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
And as usual, the march had its share of mission creep. Although &#8220;#ShutDownDC&#8221; purported to be an event designed to bring attention to a heating climate, attendees seemed oddly focused on &#8220;smashing captialism,&#8221; &#8220;eating the rich&#8221; (or killing them as the case may be), and agitating for open borders.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Shutting DC DOWN for climate action and migrant justice <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShutDownDC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ShutDownDC</a> <a href="https://t.co/LjU2ynBQbH">pic.twitter.com/LjU2ynBQbH</a>
— Folabi Olagbaju (@calibantweet) <a href="https://twitter.com/calibantweet/status/1176094940226576387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">The face of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShutDownDC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ShutDownDC</a>. <a href="https://t.co/DjwYOz25tk">pic.twitter.com/DjwYOz25tk</a>
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1176145713790472192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Some of the posters being put up by the climate protesters. <a href="https://t.co/otHNnx4NgA">pic.twitter.com/otHNnx4NgA</a>
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) <a href="https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1176127261210284033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">One of the signs at the Shut Down D.C. protest. <a href="https://t.co/6OUgE4VVQH">pic.twitter.com/6OUgE4VVQH</a>
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) <a href="https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1176124257274912769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
Fortunately for those who rely on fossil fuels to survive, that protester doesn&#8217;t appear to have any muscle mass, and would probably be loathe to actually drag a lobbyist from his home to a guillotine, even if he did use his art degree to construct a working one.
There was also, appropriately, a Dumpster fire.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">UPDATE: Dumpster Fire on Mass Ave<a href="https://t.co/BfUFeUy45s">https://t.co/BfUFeUy45s</a> <a href="https://t.co/EinI4B6cKr">pic.twitter.com/EinI4B6cKr</a>
— PoPville (@PoPville) <a href="https://twitter.com/PoPville/status/1176124325805658112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
And a visit from Code Pink&#8217;s Medea Benjamin, who showed up to the event dressed as a giant bee in a costume she apparently borrowed from a middle schooler.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin <a href="https://t.co/3BIR43eSkI">pic.twitter.com/3BIR43eSkI</a>
— Cameron Cawthorne (@Cam_Cawthorne) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cam_Cawthorne/status/1176103845191196672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
Unfortunately, there are no further public events planned for the anti-Climate Change groups. The party will now move to New York City, where activists will agitate for stricter global environmental policies at the United Nations.

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A bizarre incident at Union Theological Seminary illustrates why many Christians believe that internal forces, not external ones, represent the greatest threat to the church.
Students at this seminary prayed to a collection of plants in its chapel, which triggered a raft of criticism on Twitter. The school defiantly defended its action in a series of tweets.
&#8220;Today in chapel, we confessed to plants,&#8221; the school tweeted. &#8220;Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor. What do you confess to the plants in your life?&#8221;
Some Twitter respondents observed that the seminary and its students have lost their minds, but I think it&#8217;s worse than that. Insanity might mitigate this sacrilege, but deliberately perverting theology is another matter.
Pastor Greg Locke tweeted, &#8220;This is utter nonsense. Absolute theological bankruptcy in every way. Your Seminary is a cemetery.&#8221; Another Twitter user quipped, &#8220;What kind of penance did the plants give after the &#8216;confession?'&#8221;
What possesses this misguided institution to refer to plants as &#8220;beings&#8221;? What gross theological error leads them to pray to and encourage others to pray to them? Idolatry is no trifling matter, which is underscored by at least two of the Ten Commandments and the entirety of Scripture.
God repeatedly warns His people against chasing after false gods and punishes them for disobeying, including their being taken into captivity by the Assyrians and Babylonians. The Apostle Paul warned, &#8220;They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised. Amen,&#8221; (Romans 1:25). To the Corinthians he said, &#8220;Therefore my dear friends, flee from idolatry&#8221; (1 Cor. 10:14).
Is it not pantheistic to confess to plants, as if they were holy? Is it not blasphemous for Christians to declare that plants &#8220;sustain us&#8221; and provide us a gift that we should honor?
The Bible emphasizes that God created and sustains all things: &#8220;The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together&#8221; (Colossians 1:15-17); &#8220;The Son is the radiance of God&#8217;s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word&#8221; (Hebrews 1:3).
In its tweets the school piously asserted, &#8220;We are in the throes of a climate emergency, a crisis created by humanity&#8217;s arrogance, our disregard for Creation.&#8221; It said we must create &#8220;new spiritual and intellectual frameworks by which we understand and relate to the plants and animals with whom we share the planet.&#8221;
Notice the school capitalized the term &#8220;creation,&#8221; another deferential nod to created things instead of the Creator, an attitude it reinforces when saying we must create spiritual and intellectual frameworks to &#8220;relate to&#8221; plants.
Similarly, the school went on to boast of its deep commitment to &#8220;inter-religious engagement,&#8221; saying: &#8220;Union&#8217;s daily chapel is, by design, a place where people from all the wondrous faith traditions at Union can express their beliefs. And, given the incredible diversity of our community, that means worship looks different every day!&#8221;
Of course Christians should be responsible stewards of the environment, and of course they should love people of all faiths and treat them graciously and respectfully. But it is astounding that in the name of &#8220;diversity&#8221; and &#8220;tolerance&#8221; the school encourages the worship of other gods — and especially in its houses of worship. As the prophet Jeremiah said, &#8220;The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the LORD. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it.&#8221;
The seminary admonishes humanity for its arrogance in dealing with the environment, but how much more arrogant are we to pretend we have as much control over the global thermostat as proselytizing environmentalists claim? How much more arrogant are we to ignore God&#8217;s clear scriptural commands in both testaments against worshipping idols? Sadly, among those idols are the high priests of political correctness and man&#8217;s desperate efforts to please them above God.
Just as Paul cautioned against idolatry, he warned about false teachers: &#8220;For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths&#8221; (2 Tim. 4:3-4).
People in a sacred position as teachers of God&#8217;s Word have an even higher duty not to lead their students astray, as those who teach will be judged more strictly (James 3:1). There are many things that reasonable Christians may differ on, but worshipping and serving other gods is not one of them. It is sad that an institution ostensibly dedicated to teaching Christianity would give itself over to blatantly false doctrine.
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is &#8220;Jesus Is Risen: Paul and the Early Church.&#8221; Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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