There seems to be no end to the controversy surrounding the Global Warming Debate. It’s either an “Inconvenient Truth” or it’s “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. Who’s telling the truth? My sense is that there is “some” truth to both sides of the debate. However, I also believe it’s all an exercise in futility! Why? Because you only have to observe the behaviour of people to see how little many of us care about our environment.
Why can I say that many don’t care? Just look around our communities; even a minimal glance along our roads tell a tale of blatant disregard. How many times have I been behind a vehicle driving down the highway when all of sudden out the window goes everything. It just all comes out and scatters everywhere! All the garbage flies out and onto the ground. Just visit any McDonald’s at 7:00am and you can witness the carnage from the night before. You can almost see the outline of the vehicle from the debris that came out of the windows….. all the cartons, wrapping, pop containers and leftovers for the sea gulls to gorge themselves.
There is no hope in solving any perceived global crisis of pollution if we cannot even control our disposal of personal pollution. If we don’t understand the destruction caused by throwing garbage out the window of our car; we will not understand the industrial garbage we pump into the air.
Here lies the truth; in that we human beings are not only a sinful people but we also have a sin nature. Our tendancy is to sin. The Apostle Paul puts it this way: I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. Romans 7:15 (NLT)
Our nature is not to do right but rather to do wrong. Is there then any hope in getting it right? But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1Corinthians 15:57 (NIV)
Only a change at the very centre core of our being can change our personal life and in turn the whole world!
