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The Global Environmental Ethic (Part Two)
Commentary by Martin G. CollinsAt the time of the end, during the Sixth Trumpet, which is the second Woe, Jesus Christ reveals to God's church that mankind is characterized by its sin of earth worship, involving the idolization of elements, plants, and animals. Eco-feminists promote a worldview that reveres the sacredness of the soil, declaring it as their goddess and religion. The United Nations Environmental Program, through its interpretive volume, encourages adopting this philosophy, pushing for interconnected transformations of worldview. They aim to shift the social conscience toward a global ethic that is co-evolutionary and centered on Mother Earth. This eco-religion is increasingly visible in society, embedded in movies, books, commercials, and documentaries, programming people over a prolonged period.
Climate Change and World Peace
CGG Weekly by Richard T. RitenbaughAl Gore, former U.S. Vice President, has been awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his global advocacy on manmade climate change, sharing the honor with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), hailed as the leading scientific body on the climate crisis. The Norwegian Nobel Committee recognized their efforts to enhance knowledge about manmade climate change and to establish measures to combat it, suggesting that such changes could threaten living conditions, induce large-scale migration, and heighten competition for earth's resources, potentially leading to violent conflicts and wars. However, the IPCC's reports have faced criticism for being policy statements masked by questionable science, with their projections on global warming severity aligning with normal historical temperature fluctuations when stripped of activist hysteria. Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, has also been challenged for alarmist and exaggerated claims, with a British High Court judge identifying nine scientific errors and ruling that the film requires balancing guidance notes in schools due to its partisan nature. Despite these controversies, the Nobel Committee's decision stands on the premise that raising awareness of climate change might prevent future resource conflicts, though current global struggles over resources show no direct link to manmade climate change. Instead, the climate change agenda appears to be leveraged for control over human activity, pushing for treaties and regulations that restrict rights and progress, particularly in Western industrialized nations, under the guise of environmental sustainability, which may lead to more conflict rather than peace.
A Day of Inconvenient Truths
CGG Weekly by Richard T. RitenbaughAlbert Gore, Jr., through his documentary *An Inconvenient Truth*, warns of sudden, disastrous, worldwide climate change due to global warming, predicting dire consequences if the issue is ignored. He envisions a catastrophic future where extreme cold could grip regions north of the Tropic of Cancer. However, this perspective overlooks substantial scientific evidence that challenges his claims. Studies, such as those by Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute in his books *The Satanic Gases* and *Meltdown*, argue that the observed increase in global temperatures has been gradual and natural, not poised to cause catastrophic results. Michaels notes that temperatures rose more rapidly before 1940 without adverse effects. This environmentalist narrative is criticized as a manufactured crisis, loosely based on debatable science, and promoted to advance a political agenda. As explained by Michael Crichton in *State of Fear*, creating fear and doubt among the populace can make them more susceptible to suggestion and manipulation, with little regard for the actual truth.
A Cool Appraisal of Global Warming
'Prophecy Watch' by Richard T. RitenbaughOver the next century, mean temperatures worldwide are predicted to rise by as much as six degrees Celsius, leading to severe environmental damage. Polar ice caps will melt, releasing billions of gallons of water and raising global sea levels, which will inundate coastlines for miles in some areas. Ecologically vital estuaries will be destroyed, and countless species of plants and animals will face extinction. Coastal forests will perish under saltwater, impairing the earth's capacity to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen, thus increasing greenhouse gases and accelerating planetary heating. Some speculate that the massive water flow from poles to equator could stress earth's tectonics, potentially increasing earthquakes and volcanoes, and even shifting the earth's axis. Humanity will suffer as tropical diseases spread, arable land diminishes into desert or seabed, ozone depletion raises skin cancer risks, and intensified heat and changing weather patterns bring unprecedented natural disasters. However, skepticism surrounds these predictions. Thirty years ago, environmental concerns focused on global cooling and a potential New Ice Age, with fears of shrinking arable lands and receding shorelines destroying wetlands. When scientific evidence contradicted this, environmentalists shifted to global warming, leveraging slight upward trends in mean temperatures. Critics argue that environmentalism prioritizes political outcomes over truth, focusing on restricting free enterprise, increasing government oversight, and securing funding for environmental causes. The science behind global warming is often labeled as unreliable, with the issue framed more as political than scientific. While many nations support the 1997 UN Kyoto Treaty on Climate Control, the U.S. refuses to sign on, citing questionable climate models and the treaty's harsh impact on American industry while exempting major polluters like China and India. Numerous scientists, including over 19,700 who signed a petition by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, dispute the reality of global warming, further questioning the environmentalist narrative.
Cold Facts of Global Warming
CGG Weekly by Richard T. RitenbaughThat humanity causes global warming is a hoax. An objective look at the cold, hard facts of global climate change shows this to be true. It was only thirty years ago that environmental concerns focused on global cooling, predicting a new ice age and drastic consequences for life on the planet. When scientific evidence contradicted this, environmentalists shifted to promoting global warming, using the slight upward trend in mean temperatures to push their agenda. The environmental movement has never been about truth or facts, but rather about political results, including restrictions on free enterprise, government oversight, massive funding for environmental causes, and implementation of liberal social policies. The science behind the global warming myth is junk, as demonstrated by international scientists who recently challenged projections of significant temperature increases, dismissing them as fairy tales and citing extreme assumptions and historical data showing no link between human activity and climate change. Temperature readings from the last sixty years show no appreciable warming since 1940, suggesting that human effects on climate are minimal compared to natural influences like the sun's activity. Even full implementation of the Kyoto treaty would not significantly decrease the world's average temperature over the next fifty years. Our concern for the environment should be based on truth, pure motives, and respect for God's creation, not on selfish, political aims.
The Global Environmental Ethic (Part One)
Commentary by Martin G. CollinsEnvironmentalism, as a form of eco-spirituality, has deep roots and is linked to religious undertones, often subtly masked in bureaucratic language like sustainable development, yet at times openly acknowledged. At the United Nations, eco-spirituality is embraced through initiatives like the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which, though seemingly benign, has been interpreted in expansive works such as the Global Biodiversity Assessment and Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity, highlighting eco-spirituality as a global asset. The UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) has articulated efforts to form a global environmental ethic, evident in documents from the 1992 Earth Summit, including Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration, aiming for a unified environmental consciousness that transcends cultural boundaries. This push suggests the emergence of an international environmental ethic based on evolution, ecology, and new physics, hinting at a one-world order grounded in eco-spirituality. The UN's vision includes promoting certain worldviews over others, often casting Eastern religions and pagan practices as positive models while criticizing Western traditions. UNEP's Environmental Sabbath declares the soil as a goddess and religion, forming the basis for a coming world religion. Despite its seemingly innocuous appeal to care for the earth, this environmentalist propaganda carries a deceptive motivation to promote earth worship, already influencing society through various channels.
The Global Environmental Ethic (Part Three)
Commentary by Martin G. CollinsEnvironmentalism has emerged as a zealous, Christian-hating movement, becoming one of the main religious tools employed by the United Nations to deceive the world. This movement is pursued with such supreme importance and conscientious devotion that it qualifies as a religion. Unlike humanity, which has been gifted with reason and revelation, the earth and its creatures—stones, trees, owls, and beavers—do not require spiritual salvation. While humans are tasked with tending and keeping God's Creation, the earth has not been given dominion over people. We must study, appreciate, and properly use this wonderful, physical home that God has provided, discerning the right and wrong ways to exercise dominion over it with a God-fearing mind.
The Climate-Change Hoax
Commentary by Richard T. RitenbaughThe really 'inconvenient truth' is that many opportunist scientists deliberately created a hoax, cooking the books on temperature reports for a false narrative.
So Much for Global Warming
'WorldWatch' by Richard T. RitenbaughWhatever happened to global warming? A great deal of environmental hysteria surrounds 'climate change.' Far stronger forces than man drive earth's climate.
An Environmental Irony
Commentary by Richard T. RitenbaughSocialist countries have polluted the environment far more than capitalist countries have. The environmentalist movement is a deplorable sham.
Global Warming: Science Falsely So Called
'Prophecy Watch' by Charles WhitakerIs there anything to the constant cries from environmentalists about global warming? There is far more to this controversy than dire predictions.
Climategate
Commentary by Richard T. RitenbaughThe e-mails of Climategate have exposed the sham and hypocrisy of leftist pseudo-scientists who have fudged the data, clearly lusting after government grants.
Extreme Environmentalism and National Security
Sermonette by Charles Whitaker (1944-2021)Ezekiel 7:14 contains a chilling description of a summons to battle followed by a refusal to defend the home country. This prophecy pertains to the nations of Israel.
Children Will Be Their Oppressors
Commentary by Richard T. RitenbaughGod, in Isaiah 3:12, prophesies the recruitment of children for propaganda purposes, which we see happening regularly by the secular humanists.
The Religion of Climate Change
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by Mike FordBeing good stewards of the earth should not lead to the imbalanced practice of making mother-earth our goddess. Rejecting the Creator brings calamity.
The Final Straw
Commentary by Richard T. RitenbaughThe environmentalist warriors do not really want to save the planet so much as they want to promote group-think and global control.
A Political Hurricane
Commentary by Richard T. RitenbaughMass media and social media have been deliberately poking political hot buttons, purposely dividing the people of this nation to take adversary positions.
Climate Change
Sermonette by Ronny H. GrahamVarious leaders have tried to instill fear about alleged climate change, warning both about a coming ice age and the earth heating up, to justify greater control.
Subtly Ignoring God
Commentary by Mark SchindlerEnvironmentalists deny the power of Almighty God while attributing natural disasters to 'Mother Nature,' stemming from the worship of Gaia and Venus.
The Bible and the Environment
'Prophecy Watch' by Richard T. RitenbaughIs God an environmentalist? Should Christians care about the ecological health of the earth and its inhabitants? Here's what the Bible says about the environment.
Pulling the Plug
'WorldWatch' by Joseph B. BaityThe technology behind alternative energy sources cannot handle demand, and they create ecological problems of their own.
Dire Predictions
Commentary by Richard T. RitenbaughAlarmists in recent decades have wrongly predicted overpopulation, famine, water rationing, peak oil, killer bees, global cooling, and global warming.
Fear and Fire
Commentary by Richard T. RitenbaughMainstream media has perfected the technique of keeping people in perpetual fear, with the objective of scaring gullible viewers into conforming to their will.
Bad Weather Is Not Climate Change
CGG Weekly by Richard T. RitenbaughTerrible heat waves in summer do not mean global warming, nor do bitterly cold winters portend the next ice age.
Surreal Events
Commentary by Richard T. RitenbaughWe need to keep our eyes open and not let ourselves be deceived by the professional, state-run media spin masters.
Slowly But Surely?
CGG Weekly by Richard T. RitenbaughWe are worn down, ever so gradually, until we accept what we formerly rejected out of hand. Behind all of this is Satan the Devil.
Everything Is Politics
Commentary by Richard T. RitenbaughWhatever a person says automatically places him on the political spectrum, accruing judgment, scorn, or rejection from those who practice identity politics.
Tisha b'Av
Sermonette by Clyde FinkleaThe 9th of Av commemorates major historical tragedies. When it occurs on a Sabbath during a Shemitah (year of release), horrible things occur.
Officially to Blame
CGG Weekly by Richard T. RitenbaughPerhaps the most certain decision to come out of the UN World Summit is that America and Britain are officially to blame for every ill that plagues planet earth.
The Thinking Mind
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by Martin G. CollinsIn the current toxic culture, we have been warned not to be conformed to the world, but to become transformed into the glorious likeness of Christ.
Tolerance and Love
CGG Weekly by John W. RitenbaughFor several decades, tolerance has been a powerful theme of political correctness. It is a buzzword of those influenced by the New Age movements.
Are You Being Brainwashed? (Part 4)
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsPublic opinion is easily manipulated by propaganda. By manipulating attitudinal desensitization, the mainstream media pushes society into progressive positions.
Eroding Religious Freedom
'Prophecy Watch' by Richard T. RitenbaughFreedom of religion in America is being slowly eroded rather than removed en masse. However, the Bible encourages us in such times.
Strategies for Escaping Babylon (Part Two)
Sermon by David F. MaasIn the Olivet prophecy, Jesus gave His disciples a pointed warning about rampant deception occurring at the close of the age, engineered by the arch deceiver.
Your Mouth is About to Get You in Trouble
Commentary by Martin G. CollinsLeftist attorneys have elevated animal rights over human rights, attempting to 'give back' to animals the rights that human beings have 'taken' from them.
Commencement
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughGraduations bring advice-laden commencement speeches designed to inspire and motivate young people, sending them out to their destinations and destinies.
Jumping Into the Shallow Pond (Part Two)
'Ready Answer' by Charles WhitakerCommunism presents itself as high-minded in its redistribution of wealth, producing prosperity for all. However, reality belies collectivist theory.
How Did We Get This Way?
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by John W. RitenbaughSecularism, founded on the philosophical underpinnings of Rousseau, is, in effect, the official state religion for the majority of our nation.