Comments on: Catholic Climate Change for Dummies

By: Arkanabar Ilarsadin

Arkanabar Ilarsadin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:04:45 +0000

noelfitz,
the Dummies books are anything but stupid. I’ve used a couple of them (Linux, HTML), and they are very well written. The actual point of the “for Dummies” title is that they are written presuming that the reader has no knowledge of the subject, not that he is stupid. “Catholicism for Dummies” is probably one of the better works of general apologetics written in the last 20 years; it bears an imprimatur.

By: noelfitz

noelfitz — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:31:41 +0000

Congratulations Br. Kolenda. This is a great article. Perhaps we should try to follow the motto “live simply that others may simply life”. Wasting the gifts of God does not seem right.

Considering B XVI’s audience on 24 August 2008 as addressed to dummies does not say much for the Catholic Faithful. But the few words of the Pope quoted summarize cogently what our approach to God’s creation should be.

I hope we will have more articles from Br. Kolenda.

By: DWC

DWC — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:20:06 +0000

Good gosh, I am tired of all the tug of wars with this .. on both sides. Every leftist seems to claim or attempt to report that more conservatives deny global warming … I for one don’t … but I deny at this point the aspects that man has caused it .. and that man can halt it. I don’t imply that we shouldn’t be good stewards .. we should … but we’d better be careful not to throw our treasury of good money after bad. In the grand scheme of things … old mother nature runs rings around what man puts into or takes out of the climate. I don’t trust too many who take 100 years or so of data — and attempt to extrapolate that on a 4 billion year old or so earth. Sunspots and solar flares alone dwarf what we do.

By: PrairieHawk

PrairieHawk — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:23:33 +0000

I remember reading in the annals of CE a while back that “the human economy mirrors the Divine economy.” As applied to environmental issues, what I think this means is that whatever saves a family money and makes practical sense is good for the environment and ought to be done, and whatever places a greater burden on families or doesn’t pass the common sense test ought not to be done.

So, for example, recently I replaced all my light bulbs with fluorescent bulbs to save on my electric bill. It was a good deal. I now turn my computer off every night to save energy. Also a good deal. Also, when I purchase my next car, I’m going to be looking at smaller and more fuel-efficient models in order to save money, because that makes sense to me. What doesn’t make sense to me is government policies that hurt families, such as higher gasoline taxes, “cap and trade” (which sounds like a way for certain people to make money at the expense of everyone else), and national limits on greenhouse gases that will raise the cost of virtually everything.

Any law should pass the “common-sense test,” and in that way will help citizens instead of hinder them. Will someone please inform Washington?

By: LarryW2LJ

LarryW2LJ — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:44:55 +0000

Fantastic article!

We are called to be good stewards; and that is what we should do – by conserving, not polluting or squandering our natural resources. BUT …. God did put them on the earth for us to use; we should not reject His gifts.

Global Warming ? Maybe. Caused by man? Personally, it seems to me to be another form of pride – men are making themselves so important as to believe that we can significantly alter the processes and cycles put in place by God.

I don’t think the science is convincing enough to completely endorse the idea of anthropomorphic (sp) global warming. The earth has been around a lot longer than we have been observing and recording climactic data. To make definitive statements based on such little data seem silly.

I think the best course of action is to be good stewards without being obsessive. I really don’t like the news stories that are coming out that are linking population control to the future of climactic change. That’s a very scary, and slippery slope to travel on.

By: terrygeorge

terrygeorge — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:16:27 +0000

great job, nice concise article.