We have a little more than a month to go before the summer heat starts. Right now, the east coast is being hit with its first of what will surely be many heat blast. Yet we still are wrestling with the very idea of man-made climate change being a thing.
The other side in this debate seems to be starting with the mind set of “fill the Earth and subdue it”. Can a mindset like this do anything constructive in a time of climate change?
The book says subdue the earth and it claims to be written by the creator of the earth, as he tells his prized creation how he should relate to this earth and all the things in it. Then the book goes on to demonstrate that its authors had no idea with the earth and stars were, no idea of our relationship to other animals.
What we have learned through observational science, stands in strong contradiction to revelation, profits, or creator mythology, however there is a preferred creator myth that still seems to make its way into the conversation, and it comes with its own set of profits and saints.
If you doubt our reaction to climate change is being hindered by creator mythology perhaps you are missing on some of the ways climate change is being debated, science vs mythology and both sides being held as equal. This earth was not made for us, and is indifferent to us. If we see that we are creating an environment where other species cannot live, we may be amoung them, we are coneected to them.
On the one hand you have scientist making a claim that. They claim that looking at the available models and data, the earth is warming. They share information and models with other scientist around the world. Other scientist can confirm or deny the information and there is a near universal way looking at the differences in data and accounting for them and making the numbers and observation make sense.
From this type of modeling of the world we have the tangible benefits of airflight and medicine, to the intangible understanding of germ theory.
Those arguing that we should focus on using all the fossil fuels available, cut down forest for grazing cows, and pollute the ocean, native lands and black and brown neighborhoods with any manor of waist and expect no consequences because they believe that the earth is made with the well-being of real humans in mind.
If they just happen to act like a child in a highchair and toss their food on the floor, their preferred sky-daddy will appear for them like a parent who will clean up the child’s mess and make all the people they have anxiety or animus for disappear, and they continue to act as a child.
Any society that choses to moor itself to observational science, and human dignity will eventually lose sight of creator mythology. I do not believe that anyone debating our climate or are shared future should bring in the prospective or beliefs of creator gods when the god they are arguing on behalf of is indistinguishable from the 157 pages of creator gods found on Wiki.
Let’s stop pretending that someone who tells us to ignore the dire warnings of climate change is acting in good will. We have to remember that many people who believe in creator mythology also want this world to end.