When Christians get entangled in climate idolatry
Earth Rising – An Alternative Environmental Commentary
by Vijay Jayaraj
3y ago
The climate school strike movement grabbed the spotlight lately, with students across the world protesting against inaction towards the “climate crisis.” The movement’s leader, Greta Thunberg, has found supporters even in the global church leadership. However, in recent years, the church’s support for the climate movement seems to be morphing into a social justice issue that is void of sound Biblical doctrine. Over the past year, Greta’s climate strike movement has drawn huge support from all strata of society. After Greta’s “How Dare You” speech at the UN climate summit September 23, man ..read more
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When Wolves Infiltrate the Sheepfold: Discerning Climate Truth From Falsehood in Churches
Earth Rising – An Alternative Environmental Commentary
by Vijay Jayaraj
3y ago
In recent decades, environmental issues have emerged as a major source of concern for our society. Churches, except for a small percentage, have largely remained silent on how Christians should approach and even help overcome the environmental challenges. As a result, Christians have remained susceptible to being deceived by unbiblical principles that demand subscription to radical environmental viewpoints, often antithetical to the biblical doctrines on our relationship with the creation. These radical theories are often promoted as scientific theories. In reality, they are merely predictive ..read more
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Developing countries must bail out of the climate game
Earth Rising – An Alternative Environmental Commentary
by Vijay Jayaraj
3y ago
As obvious as it may sound, developing countries need more fast-paced development, not moral policing on matters of energy, development, and environment. The onset of the twenty-first century saw the international community coerce developing nations into adopting economy-choking environmental policies. Earlier environmental laws focused on more tangible and empirically verifiable environmental problems, like deforestation and toxic air and water pollution.  But in recent decades, attention has turned toward global warming, which has become the most talked about sociopolitical environ ..read more
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Dark, Dusty, and Developing: Climate Control Is the Last Thing We Want
Earth Rising – An Alternative Environmental Commentary
by Vijay Jayaraj
3y ago
Despite decades of rapid economic growth, parts of India (where I live) remain severely underdeveloped. Though India has achieved energy surplus — producing more electricity than it consumes — it has yet to fix the country’s dodgy transmission network. Houses in villages remain unconnected to the main grid, and pockets of cities suffer blackouts from faulty transformers. I encounter literal darkness every day. There are blackouts often, either in early morning or in the evenings. These blackouts disrupt normal life. Last week, an eight-hour blackout meant I couldn’t charge my laptop for work ..read more
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Trump And Modi Make Fossil Fuels Reign Amidst Global Climate Strike
Earth Rising – An Alternative Environmental Commentary
by Vijay Jayaraj
3y ago
The mainstream media have been buzzing with news about the global climate strike September 20–27. But largely under-reported in the media was the community event and rally organized for the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Houston September 22, which was also attended by U.S. President Donald Trump. The meeting between the two leaders was quite significant as they represent two of the biggest fossil fuel consuming countries in the world. Here is why this can be viewed as an open defiance of the global climate strike movement. All About the Global Climate Strike and School Strik ..read more
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Will Thames Freeze Again? UK Vulnerable to Cooling Catastrophe
Earth Rising – An Alternative Environmental Commentary
by Vijay Jayaraj
3y ago
The United Kingdom’s role in the global economy is important. It is the 10th largest export economy in the world. It exported $778 billion USD worth of products and services in 2018. In recent months, fears about a post-Brexit UK economy have gripped the minds of Britons. But the UK’s economy faces a bigger challenge from changes in climate. Nearly 70 percent of the UK’s land is used for agriculture, and the country depends on its own produce for 60 percent of its domestic needs. Any sharp departure from average temperature levels could cause significant disruption to the economy. Ho ..read more
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Brazil’s Rainfall Remains Healthy: Susceptible to Natural Climatic Events, Not Anthropogenic Global Warming
Earth Rising – An Alternative Environmental Commentary
by Vijay Jayaraj
3y ago
Brazil has been in the midst of controversy for not acting on climate change. Greta Thunberg and other children have named Brazil as one of the five countries in a lawsuit for climate inaction. Brazil’s President Bolsonaro has also been under heavy fire for being skeptical towards the climate crisis movement. The biggest news in recent times was the fires in the Amazon rainforest. 60 percent of the rainforest is situated within Brazil’s borders. Rainfall is an important component for the forests within Brazil’s borders and also for Brazil’s highly populated cities. Proponents of Catastrophic A ..read more
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I Am a Climate Researcher, and I Love Fossil Fuels
Earth Rising – An Alternative Environmental Commentary
by Vijay Jayaraj
3y ago
Global warming skeptics like me often get accused of getting “dirty oil money” for writing in support of fossil fuels. Or we’re called “climate deniers” and told we must not be real climate scientists. Many of these people turn their attention to my identity and not to the arguments I make. That is convenient if you do not want to debate the claims made in the article; you shift the attention towards the author and not facts. The climate alarmists—those who believe that the world is headed towards an imminent climate doomsday—do this because they believe skeptics have their roots in “big oil ..read more
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The Media Discrimination Against Cold Weather
Earth Rising – An Alternative Environmental Commentary
by Vijay Jayaraj
3y ago
Western Europe and parts of North America experience above average temperatures regularly. Thanks to the mainstream media, every increase in temperature is duly noted and reported to the masses, often with a fear-mongering headline like “Climate Change Blamed for Heatwave.” However, the same media intentionally choose not to report the regular occurrence of cold weather events and below average temperatures. Earlier this month, even as the media spoke about a heatwave in Western Europe and Greenland, much of Russia and regions beyond were engulfed in a cold blast from the Arctic. At the s ..read more
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Are Climate Activists Helping or Hurting the Common Man?
Earth Rising – An Alternative Environmental Commentary
by Vijay Jayaraj
3y ago
Climate activists are known for their passionate protests to save the environment for our future generations. It is almost as if a deep sense of compassion is associated with their efforts to make the world notice the peril of our environment. Are they helping or hurting the common man? Protests can be of different types, and can be unique too. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), for example, is known for its peculiar ways of animal rights activism. I live in a land that is famous for protests, but peaceful ones. Mahatma Gandhi’s peaceful protests played a major part in India’s ..read more
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