Creation Stewardship vs. Environmental Idolatry

Creation, Stewardship versus Environmental Idolatry, which leads, by the way, to Global Governance. That is a topic we'll discuss today right here on the Christian Worldview Radio Program, where the mission is to sharpen the biblical worldview of Christians and to share the good news that all people can be reconciled to God through faith in Jesus Christ.

I'm David Wheaton, the host of the program, and our website is thechristianworldview.org. Creation, Stewardship versus Environmental Idolatry. You know, this week, U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 29-year-old self-described Democratic Socialist, released the framework for a quote, Green New Deal, which includes meeting 100% of the power demand through clean, renewable, and zero emission energy sources. Now, I'm quoting from a lot of these things right from the bill. So in other words, no more fossil fuels, upgrading all existing buildings in the country, all existing buildings for energy efficiency, eliminating pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from farms.

That's because cows produce a lot of gas, and I'm not joking about that. Overhauling transportation systems to reduce emissions, electric car manufacturing, charging stations everywhere. The next point, guaranteed job with a family sustaining wage, adequate family medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security for every American. And lastly, high quality health care for all Americans. A source of that is the Green New Deal and some reporting by NPR. Now, the original New Deal in 1933 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted massive taxpayer-funded projects and permanently changed the federal government's relationship to U.S. citizens, according to history.com. Now, with the same kinds of government mandates and expenditures, the Green New Deal is an attempt to do exactly the same. For government to gain control over every area of your life through promising health, safety, and your security.

Who could be against that? So today on the Christian Real View, Cal Beisner joins us from the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. Let's get straight to the first segment of the interview with Cal.

Coming on the Christian Real View today, let's start out with a current event that's been taking place in our country. We've had the really terrible fires out in California that ravaged certain areas of that state, along with the upper Midwest has seen the deepest freeze in decades in the region where I live. Does this indicate anything to do with human-caused climate change?

Absolutely nothing at all. Let's take the two separately, but first let me mention that Dr. Roy Spencer, who is a climatologist at the University of Alabama, who with his partner there, Dr. John Christie, manages all of the data from NASA's satellite remote sensing equipment that give us the best data we have on global temperature. Dr. Spencer recently wrote a short book that the Cornwall Alliance has published called Global Warming Skepticism for Busy People, and has dealt with both of those issues in that book.

And he provides the historical data that really give us a handle on this stuff. So let's start with the wildfires in California and the West generally. On the historical data, what we see is that the number of fires has declined considerably from the 1920s and 30s, when they were at their very highest, to the present.

The area burned, also declined from the 1920s and 30s into the 1980s and 90s, and then began to rise again. And the reason for that has nothing whatsoever to do with climate. It has to do with the fact that in the 70s and 80s, our general practice about forestry management, especially on public lands, has been to stop clearing underbrush and harvesting trees. The result is that you have a whole lot more fuel to burn. So when a fire starts, it burns hotter, it burns faster, it travels faster, and it's very, very difficult to bring under control. So as a matter of fact, the increase in the area burned is indeed caused by human action, or rather we might say by human inaction.

It's because we're not clearing the underbrush and harvesting the trees. So there's that one, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with climate. The other issue, of course, is the severe cold that we've been seeing across the northern Midwest here in the United States in the last few days, with temperatures being broken that run back as much as 50 and 60 years, temperature records.

That also certainly has nothing to do with human activity causing global warming, because this is cooling quite the opposite. But the long-term trends on global average temperature indicate that, well, depending on how long term you're talking, let's start off with, say, the last 150 years. The world began warming significantly around 1850, coming out of what's called the Little Ice Age, which ran from basically 1350 to 1850. And we should all be glad that it did, because prior to that time, the cool temperatures meant shorter growing seasons, more lost harvests to early frosts and late frosts and so on, and that meant a lot of starvation.

And indeed, in the 14th century, Europe lost almost a third of its population because of famines caused largely by crop failures connected to severe cold. In the middle of the 19th century, we began warming up, and that warming continued in fits and starts throughout the period until now. There have actually been some cooling periods, 1950s and 60s, saw significant cooling.

And for the United States, anyway, the 48 contiguous states in the 1930s are the warmest decade that we've had so far, considerably warmer than the present decade. The trends do not match what the climate alarmists blame for the warming, that is carbon dioxide emissions from human use of fossil fuels to provide energy. Our emissions have been going up very exponentially for the last 100 years. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been rising quite steadily for the last 60 years or so. And yet temperature has risen and fallen and risen and fallen at various different rates during that period. And that indicates that the correlation between temperature and CO2 is not strong, is actually very weak. And in fact, if you look at it very, very closely, you find that CO2 follows temperature rather than leading it. If CO2 were the cause, it would have to precede temperature, but the opposite is happening. So it's not the case that CO2 doesn't do anything to warm the atmosphere.

I think the physics is good on that. The issue is how much does it do, and it seems from the empirical evidence that it does very, very little and basically benign. Good for us. And of course, the other impact of CO2 in the atmosphere is that as it gets more and more dense, plants are growing better all over the world, the deserts are greening, and crops are yielding more produce.

And that means more abundant and affordable food for everybody, especially the poor. Cal Beissner with us today in the Christian worldview. He is the founder and spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. Their website is cornwallalliance.org.

This is an organization you need to know about and stay in contact with and support. So from what you just described in your last answer against this climate alarmism taking place. So why do so many reputable scientists, I say reputable from the standpoint that they come from institutions that are well-known, higher education and elsewhere, why do they get this wrong, that man is causing global warming and there's catastrophic problems ahead for us? Well, David, I think there are probably a number of different explanations. We can't give one blanket one that applies to everybody. And frankly, we may never really be able to say as a generalization why this batch of scientists gets this wrong now. That shouldn't surprise us too much and it shouldn't make us really worried about whether in fact they are wrong, because we do know that the majority of climate scientists were wrong when in the 1960s and 70s they were telling us that we were headed into global cooling.

The opposite happened. Why were they all wrong? Interesting question and there are some different hypotheses about that. We may never be able to answer for sure.

I can give you a few possibilities. One is simply that there is in the publication of scientific research a bias in the favor of positive findings. That is, if you do some experiments and they do not support your hypothesis, you're unlikely to get that experiment published. So there is a natural bias in favor of reporting positive results and against reporting negative results. Another reason for it is that science tends to go in packs. There's an echo chamber that happens. An idea becomes popular.

It gets spread around the community for a long time and it takes a very long time to overweigh the simple popularity of that idea. Now there are some additional explanations that are perhaps a little less savory and yet I think very credible. One is simply that this is where the money is. If you want research grants, especially from the governments nowadays, on climate-related research, you're going to put your proposal in a way that ties your work to the idea of human-induced climate change.

If you don't do that, the likelihood of getting your grants is slim to nil. Frankly, the money there is many billions of dollars, roughly $100 billion a year, spent by governments around the world just on research on human-induced climate change, not including the money spent on the really useful stuff, which is our daily weather forecasts that tell us what to expect over the next three or four days. And then one further possible explanation why so many scientists get this wrong is that so many of them have become movement advocates of environmentalism. And the environmental movement, starting clear back in the 1940s and 50s, was looking for some sort of a cause that they could champion that would enable them to say, look, we need global action on such and such a problem. And early on, the idea was on overpopulation, and then as food growth and resource production outstripped population growth, that became unpopular.

It's coming back nowadays, but no more sensible now than it was then. The next idea was to blame industrial activity for putting a lot of soot into the air, and that soot was absorbing heat from the sun, which was warming the planet. Well, that turned around when we got global cooling in the 50s and 60s. So then we were told that we were cooling the planet by burning fossil fuels and putting aerosols into the air that reflected sunlight back into space. Then when we got warming coming from the mid-70s on to the late 90s, that of course turned out to be not an easy case to make. So then we were told that we were causing warming by burning fossil fuels by putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which is an infrared-absorbing gas, and that heats the atmosphere. The cool thing as far as the political agenda goes on this is that since carbon dioxide spreads through the entire atmosphere, it pays no attention whatsoever to national borders.

This means that controlling that is going to require international agreements or, in fact, global governance, which is why the French president back at the time of the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol said that this was our first major step toward global governance. I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically, delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things, just marked when they're born. That's Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood.

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I'm David Wheaton, the host. Our website is thechristianworldview.org. We actually have two resources to go with the topic today on creation stewardship versus environmental idolatry, which leads to global governance. The two resources by Cal Beisner, our guest. The first is a DVD 80 minutes long called Climate Change in the Christian. This is a message that Cal gave to an organization very good to help Christians understand this issue of environmentalism, climate change. Also, there's a booklet he has out as well called The Cosmic Consequences of Christ's Crosswork. It's a 15-page booklet, both available for a donation of any amount to The Christian Worldview. Just get in contact with us the usual ways at our website thechristianworldview.org or by calling our office at 1-888-646-2233 or writing to us and we'll give that information throughout the program.

But I want to get back to the second segment of the interview with Cal Beisner. I was reading your weekly, I think it's weekly e-update that you send out by email, your e-newsletter I guess you could call it. And I would really recommend listeners get that.

You can sign up for it at cornwallalliance.org. Just keep you informed about all these different issues related to environmentalism going on. And from a couple of different newsletters you had quoted Nancy Pelosi as saying, the Speaker of the House, the climate crisis is the existential threat of our time. Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her House colleagues, we must, quote, end the inaction and denial of science that threaten the planet and the future, unquote. And then you wrote about two Ph.D.s writing in Psychology Today declared that, quote, the human race faces extinction, unquote, if we don't stop burning fossil fuels. And yet, quote, even people who experience extreme weather events often still refuse to report the experiences as a manifestation of climate change, unquote. Psychologists, they lament, quote, have never had to face denial on this scale before, unquote. And then, of course, the new Congress person Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said something like, the world is going to end or go into freefall if we don't do something about the climate within about a dozen years or so. How can a Christian navigate in a secular environment like this, whether it's a Christian student on a secular college campus, whether it's a Christian in the science community, whether it's just someone at work where not accepting man-caused climate change is seen as some sort of, oh, you're a climate denier, you're a heretic? Carefully. You know, really, we have to take very, very seriously what the apostle Paul said in First Thessalonians 5, 21.

Test all things, hold fast what is good. And you know, that attitude, that mentality is the very heart and soul of science. Back in 1938, the philosopher and sociologist of science Robert Merton wrote in a really key article at the time that in other disciplines, skepticism tends to be regarded as some sort of a vice. But in science, skepticism is a virtue.

The sad thing is that in the climate change agenda and movement, skepticism has been vilified and that really turns away from science. The late Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman said really that this is the key to science. When you have a theory, you must devise predictions of what you should observe in the real world if your theory is true. And then you must make those observations. And if what you observe contradicts your predictions, then your theory is wrong.

And it doesn't matter how smart you are or how many people agree with you or how beautiful your theory was. If the observations contradict it, your theory is wrong. Well, in the case of the idea of dangerous man-made global warming driven by carbon dioxide emissions, the observations contradict the theory, which is not to say that CO2 doesn't cause any warming at all. I'm convinced it does. There are actually a few scientists who think it doesn't.

They have some interesting arguments. They don't persuade me, but I'm convinced that it does. But the computer climate models on which the alarmists depend all say that we should be observing about three-tenths of a degree Celsius per decade of warming running from 1960 to the present. Instead, what we observe is about thirteen-hundredths of a degree Celsius of warming per decade, which is less than half, almost as little as a third of what the models predict. And we can't even know that all the warming that we do observe has been driven by added CO2 in the atmosphere because there have been warming periods in the past when we weren't adding CO2 to the atmosphere.

If we can't explain those, then we can't explain the present by CO2. We do need to be skeptical, and that is a scientific virtue, not a vice. And frankly, when Pelosi calls this an existential threat and when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells us that the world is going to end in twelve years if we don't do something about climate change, and when those psychologists tell us that the human race could be made extinct by this, they are going way beyond what anything among the reputable climate scientists would point. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, when it does its scenarios for future warming, suggests that we might see, oh, two to three degrees Celsius increase in global average temperature by, say, two centuries from now. And at the same time, they predict that human economies will improve tremendously over the same period, and that will mean that people will be less at risk from weather-related problems, from lack of pure drinking water, from lack of food, from various things like that, at the very same time that the warming is occurring. So when you go to the serious scientists, even those who are on the, what I would call the climate alarmist side, they certainly don't go to the, this is an existential threat, the world's going to end.

Cal Beissner with us today of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. I'll answer the question by saying, well, how should a Christian navigate an environment like that is to go to your website and get some of your materials and get some data and some evidence that what we're being told is actually not taking place to the extent of being an existential threat. There's been a change in the House of Representatives now in Democrat control, some real leftists leading the charge there. We mentioned a couple of them with Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They've talked about the Green New Deal. What is the Green New Deal they are talking about or some of the latest climate change initiatives that Christians should be aware of? Boy, that's a great question, and there's so much involved in that.

It's quite an amazing thing. First off, the Green New Deal is being touted by that label in order to compare it with the New Deal under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which was so popular in so many ways. But what would this Green New Deal bring for us?

Well, let me give you a few different pieces of it. One, some government funded investment in renewable, mainly wind and solar energy, despite the fact that it's less reliable and far more expensive than fossil fuel, nuclear and hydro. Another one is low carbon infrastructure development, touted to create jobs, whereas in fact it will kill more jobs than it creates because it will drive up energy prices, and therefore all other prices, while crippling conventional fossil fuel, nuclear and hydro energy industries. Third, there will be killer taxes on oil and gas companies, putting them at a double handicap versus the wind, solar and other renewables that receive tax breaks and subsidy scores to hundreds of times higher per gigawatt of generated power. And then finally, government subsidies and low interest loans to green investment and energy savings paid for by money taken from taxpayers' pockets.

All of this, and in fact it would make zero impact on global average temperature during this century or the next or the next. The Green New Deal is politics and it's basically socialist egalitarianism piggybacked on environmentalism because really it's a labyrinthine package of measures meant simultaneously to reduce economic inequality, which it would in fact perhaps do, and fight climate change. So that's the Green New Deal, and interestingly enough, there are six top 2020 presidential contenders among the Democrats, and all six of them embrace the Green New Deal. Cal Beissner with us today on the Christian Real View, the founder of Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation.

Their website is cornwallalliance.org. From your column, five reasons why Christians must make biblically sound earth stewardship a priority, you say there's five reasons for this. Number one, radical environmentalism at its heart is a false religion. Number two, radical environmentalism is the face of the anti-human pro-death agenda. Third reason why Christians must make biblically sound earth stewardship a priority. Number three is a secularist radical environmentalist Trojan horse targets Christian youth. Number four, the reason is radical environmentalism harms people, especially the poor in difficult economic times. And number five, we must know and carry out God's commands regarding earth stewardship and care for the poor.

Now I'm not going to ask you to go through all of them. I want you just to pick one of those and explain it more fully why Christians must make that particular point of biblically sound earth stewardship a priority. Okay, Cal Beissner will answer that question after this next break of the day on the Christian Real View. He was talking about the Green New Deal. We have much more coming up on that in the final segment of the day with sound bites of what's been going on in the news regarding that. Also, just a reminder that we have two new resources today that we're offering in light of this topic on environmentalism. Cal has given an excellent 80 minute message called Climate Change in the Christian.

That's a DVD. Also, a booklet which you can order as well, The Cosmic Consequences of Christ Crosswork. I'll ask him about that in the next segment, both available for a donation of any amount to the Christian Real View. Just go to our website, thechristianrealview.org or call us at 1-888-646-2233. There's an abundance of resources available in Christian bookstores and online, but the sad reality is that many of them, even some of the most popular, do not lead to a sound and strong faith.

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Retails for $49. We're offering it for a donation of any amount so you can get in contact with us the usual ways to order that or the resources we're offering today. We have one more segment with Cal Beisner, the founder of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation.

Let's get back to the final segment with Cal. Radical environmentalism harms people, especially the poor in difficult economic times. Explain it more fully why Christians must make that particular point of biblically sound earth stewardship a priority. Well, the environmentalist agenda, David, is very, very expensive by making energy less affordable and accessible. Greenhouse gas and other environmental regulations drive up the costs of basic necessities like food, fuel, electricity, and they stifle economic growth and they cost jobs. Government subsidies of ethanol, for example, supposedly to help fight global warming, although it turns out that when you do a complete cradle to grave analysis of ethanol production and use, we actually put more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by doing that.

But that's okay. The foreign lobby has got the government over the barrel on that. Those government subsidies to ethanol have been linked to fuel and food costs, causing the price of staple foods like rice, corn, meat, and eggs to spike over recent years as grain is diverted from feeding people and livestock to our fuel tanks. Several years ago, in fact, over 50% of all corn grown in the United States was put into our fuel tanks instead of feeding either people or cattle or pigs that people would later eat. And that meant, according to one very careful analysis, that America's ethanol policy alone caused nearly 200,000 premature deaths every year in the developing world due to those raised costs. More dangerous really is simply that the effort to keep developing countries from using coal and oil and natural gas to generate electricity in order to fight global warming, that effort is locking people into the continued use of wood and dried dung as their primary heating and cooking fuels. And the pollution from that kills, according to the World Health Organization, some two to four million people a year, mostly women and young children. And it also gives non-fatal but debilitating respiratory diseases to hundreds of millions every year, and those diseases keep them from working well to lift themselves out of poverty. So what we see at the Cornwall Alliance is that even with the best of intentions, a lot of environmental policy is very, very harmful to the poor around the world. And Jesus taught us that we do need to definitely be protecting the poor from harm. Right. It's so counterintuitive.

You know, people think they're trying to help the poor through these initiatives, but it actually hurts the people they're purportedly trying to help. Thanks for explaining that. Cal Beissner with us today on the Christian worldview, talking about Christian stewardship versus environmental idolatry. Cal, I want to read a short paragraph from your booklet, The Cosmic Consequences of Christ's Crosswork. And you say in that booklet, in this short study of The Cosmic Consequences of Christ's Crosswork, I'm going to ask you to add to your entirely correct and very Western embrace of forensic justification, another entirely correct and very Eastern embrace of metaphysical renewal. And to recognize that the renewal God achieves through Christ's crosswork is not only a renewal of individuals, but also a renewal of the entire cosmos, the whole creation, unquote. That's a very interesting paragraph, but maybe a little hard to understand.

Explain what you mean by that paragraph and really that's the thesis of the booklet. Well, really, what I mean there is rooted in Romans chapter 8, what Paul says there about the creation itself and how it is waiting for the work of Christ. In chapter 8, verses 18 and following, Paul says, I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us, for the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope, that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. So we get sicknesses, and that is a part of the curse.

And it's a curse on our bodies, it's a curse on the world around us that God placed on it because of our fall into sin. And the redeeming work of Christ is meant both to redeem individuals from our personal sin, to reconcile us to God through the forgiveness of our sins and the imputation of Christ's righteousness to us received by faith alone, and to reverse the effects of the curse on the world around us. And this we learn in Romans 8, as I've just quoted, and also in Colossians 1, where Paul writes that Christ has come to reconcile the whole creation to God. So that's essentially what I was trying to do in my booklet, The Cosmic Consequences of Christ's Crosswork, to put our attention on what he's done not just for the salvation of individuals, which of course is the central theme of the Gospel, but also for the glorification and the remaking of the entire cosmos. So final question is, how should that impact that God saves us individually, justifying us individually, and also he's going to redeem the whole creation, how should that impact the way we think and live?

Well, I think in quite a number of different ways. Of course, it starts with our realization that we have this marvelous treasure of the Gospel of Christ's saving work that we need to be taking to our neighbors, because they, like us, are sinners, and they need reconciliation with God through Christ. But also, what this should remind us is that this is indeed our Father's world, that it is a beautiful place, that the heavens declare the glory of God, the firmament shows his handiwork, day-to-day utter speech, night-to-night shows forth knowledge. And so we should just simply be amazed at the wonders of God's creative brilliance and the glories of his goodness shown to us in the creation around us, and at the same time, we should recognize that because the curse has not been lifted, things can be much better. And indeed, in many ways, because of the spread of the Gospel, and with it, the Christian worldview, Christian ethics, Christian understanding of science, of business, and so on, we have made some amazing strides in actually improving the world around us. I mean, we see that in the simple fact that human life expectancy at birth, through all of history until after the Industrial Revolution, was about 27 to 28 years.

And now, life expectancy at birth, average around the world, is about 70 years, and in developed countries like the United States, it's roughly 80 years, and that's wonderful. We've cleaned up many environmental problems. Most of the waters of all the developed countries in the world are cleaner now than they have been in hundreds of years, hundreds and hundreds of years. So, this should motivate us to take good care of this planet, to do what the Cornwall Alliance calls Godly dominion, based on Genesis 1-28, where God tells us to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over it. That dominion, we believe, should look like men and women creating the image of God, working lovingly together to enhance the fruitfulness, the safety, and the beauty of the earth, to the glory of God and the benefit of our neighbors. Well, that's why we appreciate you and Cornwall Alliance for the stewardship of creation so much, Cal.

What a great resource you and your organization are for these types of issues that push back against the godless, humanistic, secular view of the creation that God made and replace that with a biblical understanding of the environment. So we thank you so much for coming on the Christian Real View, continued blessing to you and Cornwall Alliance, and we'll look forward to talking to you sometime down the road again. Well, many thanks to you, David. God bless. Okay, I hope you enjoyed the interview with Cal Beisner.

We just love having him on the program. He and his organization are a voice crying in the wilderness on this issue of environmentalism. You hear, it's all about settled science, global warming is happening, we need global governance to deal with it, we need to radically alter everything, the government needs to be involved in every area of your life.

And then you hear Cal Beisner and Cornwall give you not just opinions, but facts based on data about what's going on. Again, we have two resources available in light of today's interview. By Cal, his DVD message, 80 minute message, Climate Change in the Christian, also his booklets, a 15 page booklet, The Cosmic Consequences of Christ's Crosswork.

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Normal retail is forty nine dollars plus shipping. Go to theChristianworldview.org or call 1-888-646-2233 or write to Box 401 Excelsior, Minnesota 55331. Final segment of the day here on the Christian World View radio program. Thank you for joining us as we've talked about creation stewardship versus environmental idolatry, which leads to global governance. And often when we put together programs, we ask the question, why is this an important topic? And if it doesn't fit in with our mission to sharpen the biblical worldview of Christians, does it does this topic do that? Does it sharpen your biblical worldview or does it share the good news of the gospel? Then sometimes we won't do that topic.

It has to really fit into that. And so this topic of environmentalism, you think, well, why is this important? Well, it's not as important as the gospel, granted, but this environmental topic, it's really like a competing religion. It's putting the earth before God. And Christians, I think, get easily drawn into this because we love God's creation and they can we can easily be influenced by the falsehoods, really, of what's being told to us about global warming today.

We have to do something. So we need to hold the tension here between the call to protect and conserve the environment, use it and be stewards of it, as Cal Beisner talked about today. And yet not letting environmentalism be used as a lever to just expand unlimited government power over our lives so we lose all our important freedoms in America. Because what is being proposed in this Green New Deal and other environmental proponents and policies in the past, this one's even more extreme, is just a way to get to one world governing power, because this is a global issue, right? So we need global governance to deal with this global threat to us. And Christians who've read Revelation and other parts of scripture, when people start talking about that, we know where that's going. That's where the Bible says things are going in the future with some kind of global governance. Now listen to Cory Booker, the senator from New Jersey, talking about this Green New Deal.

He talks about it in terms of and with the passion of religious fervor. Our planet is in peril and we need to be bold. It's one of the reasons why I signed on to the resolution, I co-sponsored the resolution for the Green New Deal. And there's a lot of people now that are blown back on the Green New Deal. They're like, oh, it's impractical. Oh, it's too expensive.

Oh, it's all of this. If we used to govern our dreams that way, we would have never gone to the moon. And so we need to be bold again in America.

We need to have dreams that other people say are impossible. We need to push the bounds of human potential, because that is our history. And when the planet has been in peril in the past, who came forward to save Earth from the scourge of Nazi and totalitarian regimes? We came forward. Who came forward to save the planet or continents from financial ruin? We came forward with the Marshall Plan. Our history is standing up and saying, look, humanity is in crisis.

America is going to be light and the hope. I purposely played that after the interview with Cal Beisner, because you can get the facts first about what's going on, that the planet is not in peril from Cal Beisner. And then hear the religious fervor of Cory Booker trying to tell us we must do something. It's our history.

We have to save this planet. It's literally ridiculous, is what it is. But there's a motive behind it.

I'm not even sure he knows that he probably does. But the motive is to grab more government power. That's what the left is all about. Let's go to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is the main spokesperson, the new congressman from New York, very popular now in national politics. Here's what she had to say about the Green New Deal on CNN. I am so incredibly excited that we are going to transition this country into the future. Today is the day that we truly embark on a comprehensive agenda of economic, social and racial justice in the United States of America.

That's right. The resolution, just 14 pages long, by some estimates could cost trillions, calls for a revolution in the way we live. Viewing climate change as an existential threat to the entire world, fire, drought, rising sea levels, increasingly violent storms, famine and mass migrations is what we face, they warn, if radical change isn't embraced now. We're here to say that small, incremental policy solutions are not enough. The Green New Deal calls for a 10-year national mobilization, the goal in one short decade to bring greenhouse gas emissions to zero, meet 100% of energy needs by renewable sources, overhaul transportation systems, create millions of high-paying jobs, bring equality in health care and equal justice for underserved, minority and impoverished communities. Okay, when we start talking about existential threats, in other words, a threat to our very existence, and did you hear the comprehensive nature? This is going to overall not just the energy system, but racial injustice and economic, I mean, this is the whole shebang here. Take over everything under the guise of saving the planet, under environmentalism. That's why this is an important topic, because that's what they aim to do. One final soundbite by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, this is a comparison between a morning interview she did on the same day and an evening interview.

Look how the tune gets changed. Are you prepared to put on the table that, yes, actually they're right, what this requires is massive government intervention? It does, it does, yeah, I have no problem saying that. I think one way that the right does try to mischaracterize what we're doing as though it's like some kind of massive government takeover. Okay, so which is it? This does take massive government intervention, every person should be afraid of that.

And then later in the same day, no, this doesn't require that, that's just a ruse of the right. So you can see the amount of falsehoods and misinformation campaign that this has, and that's why we did this topic today. Again, if you want to get one of these resources or both of the resources we're offering today, you can get the Climate Change and the Christian DVD, that's an 80-minute message by Cal Beissner, and or the Cosmic Consequences of Christ Crosswork booklet, a 15-page booklet, you can get them both. One or the other or both for a donation of any amount to the Christian Real View, just go to our website, thechristianrealview.org, it's the easiest way to order, or you can call us toll-free in our office, 1-888-646-2233, or you can write to us at Box 401 Excelsior, Minnesota, 55331, and all that contact information is given out immediately following the program in just about a minute. And in that minute, I just want to say something about a man who influenced me, especially with regard to radio. Paul Ramseyer, he passed away recently, went home to be with the Lord at age 91, went to his funeral yesterday.

He was a renowned broadcaster here in the Twin Cities area, and even around the world he was well known for his broadcasting. He helped me get started in Christian radio, as I mentioned. He was a man of integrity, encouragement, a great encourager. He was a man who was driven by a mission to glorify God and make Christ known, and he was guided by Scripture.

He was a man who took in Scripture, memorized it, meditated on it, and used it to encourage others. And so as to his wife Grace, his son Tim, and daughter-in-law Connie, and to his daughter Carolyn, your dad made a big impact, I know not only on you, but on many other people, including me. And we are going to miss him, and we take joy at this moment, even in the midst of a difficult loss where we all need comfort, especially you. We take joy in the fact that knowing that he's with his Lord and Savior. Thanks for joining us on the Christian Real View today everyone. We do live in a changing and challenging world, but there is one thing we can count on and trust in. Jesus Christ and His Word are the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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