Saturday, April 9, 2011

A change out of left field


I read recently this  quote from Paul Collins on Christianity, and it got me wondering ...

"Christians are sensitive to suicide, homicide and genocide but we commit biocide (the killing of the life systems of the planet itself) and we have no morality to deal with it. How God saves the natural world is God's business. Perhaps the answer lies in serendipity, in the unexpected, in the kind of unforeseen change that comes out of left field" 
Paul Collins, Judgement Day

... I wonder if God hasn't already started to save the natural world - by choosing to get rid of its worst pest, the virus that is humankind?

Controlling the Environment


“Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, maybe we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment ... I’ve never seen a problem that wouldn’t be easier to solve with fewer people, or harder, and ultimately impossible, with more.”

Sir David Attenborough