Many of you probably have seen this email about the Icelandic volcano eruption. It was forwarded to me by a retired-Lutheran-minister in-law. He, more than likely, received it from one of his former parishioners. (Ah, yes, he taught his congregations well.) I would love to tell all of them: “If God is always in control, then he must have caused the volcanic eruption in the first place.” Actually, whoever wrote this admitted as much by the use of “a single act of God.”
God is in control—ALWAYS!!!!!
Aren’t You Glad You Went Green?
6 billion people try for 5 years…. then the earth burps, and it’s all for naught!
For all of you out there in America and across the globe who have fought so hard to tackle that hideous enemy of our planet, namely carbon emissions, I have some really bad news that will be very painful for you to process. But it is my duty to pass it on to you anyway.
Are you sitting down?
Okay, here’s the bombshell. The current volcanic eruption going on in Iceland, since it first started spewing volcanic ash a week or so ago, has to this point, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet. Not only that, this single act of God has added emissions to the earth estimated to be 42 times more than can be corrected by the extreme human regulations that have been proposed for annual reductions.
I know, I know…. (now have a group hug)…it’s very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying reusable fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kid’s “The Green Revolution” science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat,
going on vacation to a city park instead of to Yosemite, nearly getting hit by a car every day while riding your bicycle to work, replacing all of your one dollar light bulbs with ten dollar fluorescent light bulbs that don’t give as much light or last as long (and you cannot dispose of ANYWHERE legally)…well, all of those things you have been doing all this time, at great inconvenience and great expense, have all gone down the tubes in just the past week…
The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth’s atmosphere in the past week has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce that evil beast, carbon. And, those hundreds of thousands of American jobs you helped move to Asia with expensive emissions demands that were put on American businesses… you know, the ones over there that are creating even more emissions than when the companies stayed
home creating American jobs, well that must all seem really worthwhile now. I’m so sorry. And I do wish that there was some kind of a silver
lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the brush fire season across the western U.S.A. will start in about two months and those fires will negate your efforts to reduce carbon emissions in our world for the next two years!
So grab a Coke, give the world a hug, and have a nice day while Al Gore contemplates suicide!
I forwarded this on to some of my freethinking friends. None of their responses were positive. In fact, they were a bit disgruntled that Christians have this attitude. Here is what one of them, with a background in Christian fundamentalism before “seeing the light“ of unbelief, wrote back to me:
I think you should respond to this, Betty. [I didn’t. What good would it have done?] He is really nasty, isn’t he?? Just what the world needs now . . . folks like him. The last line is just about as “nice” as his fellow Christians that are “praying” for Obama’s death… So now, with this attitude, we’re supposed to “give up” trying to do any more green things for our planet? Oh, I forgot, we shouldn’t care . . . Armageddon is near . . . and all these wonderful folks will just be “swept
up in the clouds,” and to hell with future generations that have to live here on this planet….
If you’re interested, here is an interesting website with an article from a Russian scientist who says that volcanic eruptions slow global warming:
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100429/158805885.html
Whether this scientist is correct in his assessment, I simply don’t know. Actually, I hope he is.
Posted by The Painful Truth for Betty at 5/28/2010 05:03:00 PM
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