A hundred? Why stop there? How about universities using power? How about cities? How about toys? How about electronics? How about vacations by car or plane? How about military? How about any of a million ways sin manifests itself and stinks up the world? Why would we focus on some you chose, and the ways you claim we can save ourselves from them?
You're confusing the categories between
personal sin concerns I can
pray about and
societal legislative concerns I must think and
vote about.
If you are my neighbour and have a bad temper, I might try praying for you. If you are my neighbour and throw toxic waste into my yard that threatens my kids, I might try talking with you about it, and then if that fails, call the cops! Then the cops would appeal to
environmental legislation in carrying out their charge and ultimately the sentence and judgement.
But we don't have effective climate legislation yet. This conversation is about the reality of the climate situation, the morality of our requirement to address it, and scientific basis of how to replace coal fired power. Even if global warming were a hoax there are a bunch of other reasons to replace coal!
1. It will run out! A society as addicted as ours is to cheap energy would simply collapse if that energy were suddenly ripped away. Food growing and distribution systems would collapse. Our fresh water pumping system would fail first.
2. It poisons people.
3. It poisons the environment, and destroys whole landscapes.
If I ran the world I'd want our governments to discuss how we can fast-track the commercialisation of GenIV nukes that eat nuclear waste. These seem to be, at this stage, the best technology we have for replacing baseload coal fired power. The nuclear waste we have sitting around in cooling ponds could then run the world for 500 years! (Especially in the Integral Fast Reactor GE is working on, a special IFR called the S-PRISM). So there ARE answers to replacing our electricity power source, and this WOULD 'save ourselves', from the worst effects of climate change that is. Not from sin. Of course. If you were rude enough to actually imply that.
The science is telling us about severe climate impacts on the poor. The more global warming gets worse, the more we'll be hurting the poor. 300 thousand people already die each year from global warming. (According to WHO).
But, because you've got no appreciation of the hermeneutics of Genesis, and what it all actually
means, you've rejected
all sciences associated with an old earth, like climate science, ice core samples going back 800 millennia, and anything 'oldish'. The worst thing is you're trying to sound spiritually superior for your poor reading of the bible!
The distinction between personal sin issues and societal injustice issues is what I was trying to highlight, because that's what this conversation is
about. You don't seem able to answer in kind; to address the points actually being discussed! You would fail Year 9 High School debating. I'm beginning to see that you're not interested in an adult debate about a defined topic, but are just foaming at the mouth about anything that pops into your head. The rest of your post was rude, incoherent, and rambling. You're not winning any points with terse one liners that fundamentally fail to address the point.