“Where no oxen are, the manger is clean,
But much revenue comes by the strength of the ox.”
In Proverbs 14:4, the wise Solomon expressed with simplicity one of the most important principles of creation stewardship: trade-offs are both important and unavoidable in the real world.
That verse came to mind lately while contemplating Michael Abbaté’s interesting book Gardening Eden: [...]
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Proverbs: The Importance of Trade-OffsJuly 15th, 2009 by E. Calvin Beisner
Gore’s Case for Global Warming: Science or Psychobabble?July 15th, 2009 by The WeGetIt.org Team
Video: Al Gore invokes spirit of Churchill Former Vice President Al Gore, who has become the world’s most visible advocate of urgent action to stop manmade global warming, lately shocked at least one attendee at his speech at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment in Oxford by giving what blogger Geoff Brumfiel called “a [...] President’s Science Advisor Promoted Coercive Population ReductionJuly 15th, 2009 by The WeGetIt.org Team
As early as 1977, John Holdren–concerned about over-population–was suggesting forced abortions, sterilization drugs in drinking water and food, requiring couples to obtain “official permission” to become pregnant, forcing single mothers to have abortions (or seizing their babies and giving them to couples), and a transnational “Planetary Regime” to control economies and individual lives through an international police force. He wrote, “No one may lawfully have more than one spouse at a time. Why should the law not be able to prevent a person from having more than two children?” |
