“An Inconvenient Truth”

The U.S had its midterm elections recently, and there were many issues brought up during the election that I would like to comment on, but in this post, I want to focus on an issue that wasn't an issue at all – Global Warming. There is ample evidence that shows a direct correlation between the emission of greenhouse gases and global warming. The bottom line is that if the level of emission is not reduced, the world is heading for serious trouble.

President Bush has consistently resisted pressure to do something about the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. He has refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol and failed to support any initiatives aimed at reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. To the contrary, he supports drilling for oil in Alaska which would drastically affect the reserve.

All this comes from a self proclaimed man of God who is said to let his religious views influence the decisions he makes. This is a president that did more than any other president to get Evangelicals to vote for him, promising to uphold family values, promote religion and work to ban gay marriage because it is morally wrong.

My view is that a man of God who does nothing to protect the environment created by God is no man of God. Not only does he fail to protect the environment, but he actively partakes in its destruction! I don't think it is in any way moral! How can it be? Is it protecting family values when you don't look after the beauty created by God so that your children can appreciate it? How is this morally acceptable by any standards? Gay marriage is morally wrong because God meant marriage to be between a man and a woman only, but destructing the natural ecosystems created by God so that animals are able to sustain themselves is OK? Doesn't it bother anyone that fresh air is increasingly in the decline and that God didn't mean it to be this way, just like he didn't mean for people of the same sex to get married.

The first thing I think a man of God should be doing is protecting the environment, and the Democrats seem to be doing this better than Mr. Bush ever has. Mind you, the Democrats, according to Mr. Bush, have no moral values.

Does any one else see the irony, or is this just a different view?