http://blog.nwf.org/2005/08/lets-win-this-one-for-the-gipper/ The National Wildlife Federation's blog Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.nwf.org/2005/08/lets-win-this-one-for-the-gipper/comment-page-1/#comment-3115 Robert Spencer Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:41:52 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/2005/08/28/lets-win-this-one-for-the-gipper/#comment-3115 this is a letter to the editor I just wrote.
God Bless America! I wonder what people really mean when they say this? Is it “Please, God help
America”; or is it “God Blesses America because we are who we are.
A couple of the most popular televangelists have suggested that God punishes us for our straying
from the path. Perhaps he does as even insurance companies call hurricanes an act of God.
In recent centuries though, people in this country and many the over world have embraced science
and discounted God’s influence on the natural world. We trust lightning rods, weather satellites and
computers and only invite God for weddings, funerals and wars.
If God has been punishing us, it seems that he’s been getting more upset as of late. Hurricanes has
been horribly punishing to many areas in the Bible belt.
People who moved south for milder weather are seeing devastating hurricanes hit year after year.
The south, which elected and reelected a president who certainly had more faith and less intellect
than his opponents, is struck again and again.
Or could it be global warming that’s providing the energy for the storms. Ocean levels are rising.
The hottest years on record have been the last ones. We’ve taken carbon that was sequestered over
millennia and dumped it to the air in decades.
While solar and wind energy battle our south, our government invades Iraq and Alaska looking for
more carbon to burn up. Should we fight nature like this? The answer is blowing in the wind.

]]> http://blog.nwf.org/2005/08/lets-win-this-one-for-the-gipper/comment-page-1/#comment-5312 Robert Spencer Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:41:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/2005/08/28/lets-win-this-one-for-the-gipper/#comment-5312 this is a letter to the editor I just wrote.
God Bless America! I wonder what people really mean when they say this? Is it “Please, God help
America”; or is it “God Blesses America because we are who we are.
A couple of the most popular televangelists have suggested that God punishes us for our straying
from the path. Perhaps he does as even insurance companies call hurricanes an act of God.
In recent centuries though, people in this country and many the over world have embraced science
and discounted God’s influence on the natural world. We trust lightning rods, weather satellites and
computers and only invite God for weddings, funerals and wars.
If God has been punishing us, it seems that he’s been getting more upset as of late. Hurricanes has
been horribly punishing to many areas in the Bible belt.
People who moved south for milder weather are seeing devastating hurricanes hit year after year.
The south, which elected and reelected a president who certainly had more faith and less intellect
than his opponents, is struck again and again.
Or could it be global warming that’s providing the energy for the storms. Ocean levels are rising.
The hottest years on record have been the last ones. We’ve taken carbon that was sequestered over
millennia and dumped it to the air in decades.
While solar and wind energy battle our south, our government invades Iraq and Alaska looking for
more carbon to burn up. Should we fight nature like this? The answer is blowing in the wind.

]]> http://blog.nwf.org/2005/08/lets-win-this-one-for-the-gipper/comment-page-1/#comment-3114 Michael Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:39:58 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/2005/08/28/lets-win-this-one-for-the-gipper/#comment-3114 I agree with Molly. We should not be dividing ourselves at a time like this by making fun of our neighbors. It is not “neighborly”. Everytime I have been to Canada or have met a Canadian, I have found them to be very neighborly. Perhaps, it would be a good idea to rename the refuge the Ronald Reagan Arctic Refuge. After all, George W. Bush considers himself to more a disciple of Reagan politically than of his own father. Maybe he’d stop and think if his idol’s name were attached.

]]> http://blog.nwf.org/2005/08/lets-win-this-one-for-the-gipper/comment-page-1/#comment-5311 Michael Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:39:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/2005/08/28/lets-win-this-one-for-the-gipper/#comment-5311 I agree with Molly. We should not be dividing ourselves at a time like this by making fun of our neighbors. It is not “neighborly”. Everytime I have been to Canada or have met a Canadian, I have found them to be very neighborly. Perhaps, it would be a good idea to rename the refuge the Ronald Reagan Arctic Refuge. After all, George W. Bush considers himself to more a disciple of Reagan politically than of his own father. Maybe he’d stop and think if his idol’s name were attached.

]]> http://blog.nwf.org/2005/08/lets-win-this-one-for-the-gipper/comment-page-1/#comment-3113 Molly Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:34:22 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/2005/08/28/lets-win-this-one-for-the-gipper/#comment-3113 It was a very nice article, and it really got the point across, but, being Canadian, I did not appreciate the line in which the author indicated that the biggest thing Canada could do to help would be to stop supplying hockey players or to ‘send in the Mounties’. I do realize that some Americans like to make fun of our Mounties, but since Canada is against the drilling, I don’t think that it was an appropiate time to poke fun. Of all the governments, Canada’s seems to be doing the most right now for this, and I think that it’s about time for America to have some respect.

]]> http://blog.nwf.org/2005/08/lets-win-this-one-for-the-gipper/comment-page-1/#comment-5310 Molly Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:34:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/2005/08/28/lets-win-this-one-for-the-gipper/#comment-5310 It was a very nice article, and it really got the point across, but, being Canadian, I did not appreciate the line in which the author indicated that the biggest thing Canada could do to help would be to stop supplying hockey players or to ‘send in the Mounties’. I do realize that some Americans like to make fun of our Mounties, but since Canada is against the drilling, I don’t think that it was an appropiate time to poke fun. Of all the governments, Canada’s seems to be doing the most right now for this, and I think that it’s about time for America to have some respect.

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