We've desecrated the Blue Planet.
This one, unique, gorgeous gift from God - for all we know the only hospitable planet that exists in the universe or at least within say a hundred million light years - and we've done our level best to destroy it.
Vanishing species, desertification, polluted land, air and waterways, depleted ozone and unprecedented climate change.
We've taken billions of tons of hydrocarbons that took hundreds of millions of years to form underground and released it into the atmosphere in less than 100 years. And now like a bunch of stunned dunces we stand around asking ourselves "I wonder if that caused a problem". One plan that's been put forward to slow global warming, is to pump carbon back underground i.e. take atmospheric gas that was converted from dense liquid oil and pump the expanded gas back into the ground - BRILLIANT! Let's put Exxon and the Saudis to work on that plan...
We've created myriad religions that put us at the center of the universe and rationalize our pathetic existence because we do not have the capacity nor courage to understand how insignificant we are in the context of the universe. We study holy books full of gibberish written hundreds (thousands) of years ago by people who were even more ignorant and backward than we are (hardly seems possible), to give ourselves the short stories we need to put ourselves to bed each night. The books all say we own this planet, so we can do what we want with it. To "worship" or admire anything that's natural or to find God's beauty in anything that's natural is deemed "Pagan". After all, religion, like all businesses, hates competition. Nothing can compete with such a deceptively alluring and self-serving way of thinking - science can't, logic can't, commonsense - no chance. Somehow God appeared a few thousand years ago to part the Red Sea and punish the Egyptians, but since then no one has seen hide nor hair of him - even as half a billion children evaporated from the face of this earth in the last century alone. I guess he was on his lunch break. The Book also says the Hebrews were punished for worshipping a golden calf, to which I say our entire consumption-oriented way of life including the pseudo religions that tell us to embrace it - are all one giant golden calf - a false idol.
Then I ask myself, how can we expect the average person to ever care about this planet when we are so busy stuffing our own bodies full of fast/factory food toxic waste? Logic dictates that guys like Dick Cheney who eat beef at every meal and have had 5 heart attacks, aren't worried about the fact that yogourt containers aren't recyclable.
The one true God gave us the greatest gift - our home - and we threw it away. This is desecration of the highest order and it shows more than anything what we think of God...and I have no doubt before it's all said and done, God is going to show what he thinks of us.
