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Suhar

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Plastics.

Now what in the world does it have to do with anything? Here I am sitting on the beach of Pacific Ocean in Washington State USA. Just took couple of days to get away from everything and clear my mind. Not the first time I do that and not a first time I have walked on the beach and saw plastic garbage everywhere. Plastic containers, utensils, shoes, toys, rope, styrofoam and off course bottles…. bottles everywhere! Big or small, mostly small. Fist size bottles which can be emptied in one good size gulp. Long after one who made that gulp maybe gone that piece of plastic will persist. Plastic items can break down into smaller pieces but it will never biodegrade and return to natural material form.

Whole society as of late seems to be obsessed with disposable everything, mostly made of plastic of one sort or another, use it once and toss it into garbage. Little to no thought is given as to where all that plastic garbage goes. It goes into a massive system of disposal, mostly by burying garbage into the ground where it will sit and leach chemicals into the ground for centuries if not thousands of years.

Plastics is one of many issues that seemingly irreversible destroy this planet of ours. Another awful problem few mention is a nuclear waste. No plans were made as to what to do with is once nuclear fuel is used. The scale of the problem is more massive then most people can imagine. Remember Fukushima? It is no longer in headlines but it is still (and will be for thousands of years) an enormous problem that, really, cannot be dealt with. Pools of “spent” fuel rods (in the stroke of genius no doubt) placed over reactors which are now damaged still are very much at risk of collapsing. From what I heard collapse of one of them will render Western Hemisphere uninhabitable by human beings. Now multiply that by the number of nuclear stations around, every one of which can do the same! The scale of the problem is so truly mind boggling it is hard to grasp.

Looking at the bigger picture the whole Earth is treated as a disposable little planet, use this third rock from the Sun and when we are done with that we will be advanced enough to hope onto another rock from another sun. Mindset teaching that Earth is nothing special creates an attitude of treating it as a disposable item not a unique and special creation of God for us to be good stewards of.

Interestingly enough whole “green” movement is hijacked completely by the left, some of whom worship Earth itself as a Gaya, as deity. “Green” movement should have been Christian movement instead. If you think about it maybe God would be the ultimate “greenie” Himself! Do you think He appreciate our determined efforts to damage his creation as fast and as much as we can? Maybe it is not a coincidence that the more godless society becomes more Progress becomes deity of some sort. Whole society is based on relentless race toward “MORE!” More stuff, better, greater, fancier, faster, shinier. Last year model perfectly functional still is tossed into landfill, clothes worn once, perfectly good to use but no longer “in style” follow suit. Whole society keeps their minds occupied by mad chase after “latest and greatest” while whole Earth, God’s beautiful and unique creation is defaced with mountains of garbage everywhere and massive factories that pollute even more, only to produce items that become garbage as soon as they are used handful of times.

No wonder that God will have to completely re-create the Earth for His Millennial Kingdom to take place here and for Heaven to come to that re-created Earth. Why would God want Heaven to come to this utterly polluted garbage dump that we the humans turned His creation into? As if it is Satan’s attempt to make whole Earth so disgusting to God in spiritual and physical way so that He just gives up on it and creates Himself another one already leaving this bucket of filth to Satan who cannot create.
 
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lforrest

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I have a solution to both problems. Bury our radioactive waste in landfills with our plastic trash. The radiation will breakdown the plastics, quickly making them brittle and they will fall apart.

I think worrying that we will irreversibly destroy the planet shows a lack of faith in God's sovereignty over this world, and too much faith in Man's prognostications. I will offer limited support to regulations that prevent smog buildup or contaminate our waters but that is only for immediate health concerns.
 

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lforrest said:
I have a solution to both problems. Bury our radioactive waste in landfills with our plastic trash. The radiation will breakdown the plastics, quickly making them brittle and they will fall apart.

I think worrying that we will irreversibly destroy the planet shows a lack of faith in God's sovereignty over this world, and too much faith in Man's prognostications. I will offer limited support to regulations that prevent smog buildup or contaminate our waters but that is only for immediate health concerns.
Solution by somebody who is not very big on physics. Thank you for good laugh.

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/20/1092637/-Fukushima-Reactor-4-In-Danger-Of-Making-Northern-Hemisphere-Uninhabitable
 

aspen

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wow totally agree with the OP
 

laid renard

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Yeah, we should care. God made us not only to love Him and to be loved by Him, but He also told us to be good stewards.

When I moved from California to Vegas it was a bit of a culture shock, more sex, more rude people, more crazy drivers, and less recycling.


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I do my little part by using my own bags when I can while grocery shopping, and avoiding products that have a ridiculous amount of packaging, no matter how bad I want the product.

I also use public transportation a lot. Or walk. Or I'll catch a ride with someone who's going in that direction to begin with. In California I rode my bike to church. All the while being passed by other members in their vehicles who lived a block or two away from it.
I'm gonna be nice and say they were going out for brunch afterwards and needed their car. :D
 

aspen

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Laid, make sure you wash your cloth grocery bags - it is really easy for meat to contaminant cloth
 

aspen

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I think Suhar is talking about being responsible not blame
 

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aspen said:
Laid, make sure you wash your cloth grocery bags - it is really easy for meat to contaminant cloth
Meat is harmful to the earth, leaving a carbon footprint many times larger than that left by those who wisely abstain from meat. Didn't you know that?
 

aspen

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Meat is not forbidden by God, but we eat way more it than we should.
 

This Vale Of Tears

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aspen said:
Meat is not forbidden by God, but we eat way more it than we should.
We also grow most of our crops just to feed cows, raising the price of food in the world market. It takes 2400 gallons of water for every pound of beef and 11 times more fuel per calorie of beef when compared to vegetable produce. We also reserve 30% OF THE EARTH'S LAND for the raising and slaughtering of meat, which is why miles of rain forests in South America are being razed to accommodate our insatiable appetite for meat. I could go on about how it affects the air we breathe and the water we drink, and the billions of dollars it costs our health care system to deal with the effects of the standard American diet loaded with casein and saturated fat which is the leading cause of cancer and coronary heart disease.

Meat was given for man to eat after the Great Flood because of changes in the laws of physics, that plants no longer grew as plentifully and perennially as they did before. But that certainly doesn't justify the monstrosity of the modern meat industry.