A few years ago I had lunch with a Christian leader from the Rockford area. After the meal, he handed our waitress a Gospel tract. I wanted to reinforce his compassion, so I told the young lady that her relationship with God was the most important thing in the world. She responded, “Yeah, that and global warming!”
She proceeded to tell us that she wakes up in fear of what may happen to the earth during her lifetime. I was shocked. I asked her if she was familiar with the old Sunday school song, “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.” She said, “Yes.” I told her it was true.
I left that meeting with a deeper awareness of the politics of fear. The Left uses fear to get people to act.
We should not be surprised to hear that Springfield snollygosters are once again using government schools to indoctrinate impressionable young students with left-wing ideology. This time they want to manage so-called “climate change” lessons in high schools state wide. to mandate so-called “climate change” lessons in high schools state wide. State Representatives Janet Yang Rohr (D-Naperville) and Kimberly Du Buclet (D-Chicago) have sponsored HB 4895.
Take ACTION: Click HERE to send a message to your state representative to ask him/her to oppose HB 4895. Politely let them know that tax dollars should not be used to solely teach unproven, dubious left-wing political topics to impressionable children. The politics of fear has no place in our public school classrooms.
This bill passed out of committee on a partisan roll call (10-5) on March 21st and is on second reading in the Illinois House, which means it could be called for a vote at any time. Please take a moment to communicate your opposition to your state representative today.
Background
No reasonable person can deny it: Leftists are using our government schools to indoctrinate our children with their left-wing political agenda — in this case, a contrived crisis that they plan to use to grow the size and scope of government, and their own political power.
Stoking up fear in young impressionable minds will empower Big Government (because they claim to have solutions). Like the waitress in my story above, it will also cultivate anxiety, depression, and stress for naïve and trusting youth.
Environmentalists and the Apostles of Wokeism argue that a growing human population using growing amounts of energy from fossil fuels is causing catastrophically dangerous global warming. The Left prescribes two cures.
–First, replace fossil fuels with wind, solar, and other renewables. But as Dr. E. Calvin Beisner (of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation) explains, abundant, affordable, reliable energy is indispensable to lifting and keeping any society out of poverty, and fossil fuels are, and for the foreseeable future will, remain our best source of that energy.
Wind, solar, and other renewables are diffused, expensive, and unreliable. Substituting them for fossil fuels makes energy more expensive, thus slowing, stopping, or even reversing the conquest of poverty in the developed world while impoverishing many in the developed world.
–Second, they want to slow, stop, and finally reverse population growth — and they are having great success with their agenda. Instead of teaching children about climate change, they should be teaching students that the world is not overpopulated, and that human beings are the most valuable renewable resource this world has or will ever know.
Most leftists openly advocate reducing the world’s population to 500 million, i.e., getting rid of 9 out of 10 human beings. How? Partly through homosexuality and transgenderism, but also through government-run “family planning” programs that invariably involve highly incentivized and often even forced use of contraceptives, sterilization, and abortion.
Efforts to control population have unintended consequences. For example, from its start in 1979 China’s one-child policy has led to sex-selected abortions, with male births outnumbering female by about 115 to 100, resulting in about 33 million more Chinese men than women. In turn, this has fueled demand for pornography and prostitution, much of which is met by sex-trafficking that has become so bad that the U.S. State Department has named China among the world’s worst offenders.
Yes, climate change is a multiple level pro-family issue.
Learn More: If you’d like to learn more, we highly recommend watching or listening to Dr. Calvin Beisner’s presentation which was video-recorded in 2017. This 90-minute presentation will leave you much better informed and with a deeper understanding of why Christians should actively oppose the climate alarmist agenda. You can watch it here below, or click HERE.
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Read more about Dr. Beisner and the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation and please visit their blog, EarthRisingBlog.com.
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