Still Teaching and Preaching: A Retired Educator Reflects on the Important Issues Affecting Chicago and the Nation by Ned L. McCray

Author:Ned L. McCray [McCray, Ned L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Commentary & Opinion, Political Science
ISBN: 9781098015145
Google: YaAuEAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 52678860
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc
Published: 2019-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Spoiling Our Nest

Is Our Planet Doomed?

Human beings are on a collision course with disaster. We inhabit a fragile celestial body floating through space. Is it our destiny to lay waste to our heavenly home?

Our planet is a perfect example of divine order. Everything on the planet has an ordained place and function! The planet is capable of maintaining this order without our help. Unfortunately, God’s perfect world is being interfered with and disturbed by the actions of imperfect and flawed human beings.

We are spoiling our own nest on a daily basis by polluting our water, land, and air. The result is global warming that is causing an ever-increasing number of natural disasters and bizarre weather patterns that are relentless and deadly.

Adding to this state of affairs is man’s seeming inability to get along with his fellow man and live in peace and tranquility on this fragile planet. Are we doomed to use our resources and ingenuity to kill off each other?

Our national priority as recently pronounced by the president is to keep us safe, and to do so, we must spend more of our national treasure to build larger and better equipped armies and to assemble more nuclear weapons. Why? Because nations like individuals have difficulty getting along and trusting each other.

The result will be an arms race as countries endeavor to keep up with each other’s stockpile of weapons. Nuclear weapons in the hands of unstable leaders can lead to the destruction of the world, as we know it. And there are a number of such leaders in the world.

We have been told that the Doomsday Clock that portends the end of our world is ticking away and getting ever so close to midnight. Our only way out of this seeming road to disaster is maybe in a perverse way climate change itself.

The nations of the world may be eventually faced with so many natural disasters that their resources will have to be expended to deal with them and have little or no time squabbling with each other.

We are on this planet for a short period of time and should spend our time preserving it for future generations. It was once pristine, now it is soiled. We can do better. We must work at it, for the sake of our children.

Climate Change: Are We Too Late?

The catastrophic destruction caused by deadly wildfires in California and massive flooding in other parts of the country should convince even the most die-hard skeptics that climate change is alive and well. They may be a precursor to what lies ahead if we don’t act in a timely fashion. We have to hope and pray that we are not too late.

We are spoiling our own nest on a daily basis by polluting our water, land, and air. The result is global warming that is causing an ever-increasing number of natural disasters and bizarre weather patterns that are relentless and deadly.

Our only way out of this seeming road to disaster is maybe in a perverse way global warming itself.

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