not of this world

in case anyone missed the recent controversy of the Texas Distinguished Scientist of 2006 who is on record as welcoming with open arms and a smile upon his face the extinction of 90% of humanity, here is a pretty well rounded summary.
i’ve found prager’s take on these sorts of phenomena to be helpful: humans are bound to have faith in and fear of something. if they don’t have faith in God and rightly understood fear of true evil, they will put other things in place of those two, and do a lot of calling good evil and evil good inbetwixt. that the world has always had cycles of warming and cooling, and that man’s capacity for evil is much greater evinced through his legion use of fellow humans as mere objects for personal pleasure, private gain and violent disposal, rather than in the proliferation of the combustible engine, or the mass production of plastics, seems to be beside the point as far as many are concerned.

what is selectively considered as “natural” appears to be worshipped and at all costs elevated, with convenient exceptions made such as the bringing of human pregnancies to full term - which actually, as i think about it, fits snuggly as an inconsistent answer to their perceived evil of too great an abundance of humanity upon an otherwise pristine, unencumbered planet earth, for them apparently the ultimate good.  and the evidence of the earth’s previous “natural” cycles of cataclysmic climate change predating humanity’s involvement are disregarded in the holy crusade to wreak economic and social chaos if need be, via “enlightened,” largely uninformed or intellectually dishonest, totalitarian dictates towards the quixotic goal of reversing what is irreversable.  good stewardship of this beautiful earth we have been given is not the only commandment humanity is enjoined to obey, and is far from the supreme commandment.
while all will grant that environmental trauma sustained by pollution and needless waste is an evil of sorts, it does seem to me that many trendy prophets of impending environmental doom doth protest too much to an ‘evil’ contributed to at least equally by the natural violence of volcanoes, while simultaneously being breathtakingly silent on evils much closer to heart, evils much more within our human reach and responsibility to counter.

picking your battles is one thing, elevating the battle farthest from individual reach as that which governs your priorities seems to me to be another.