Balance of nature: human and theological implications (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, February 05, 2025, 22:57 (29 days ago) @ dhw

Balance of Nature: Theology

DAVID: Making my point. God is not human.

dhw: Of course he’s not human. How can an immaterial, eternal, sourceless mind be a human being? But that does not mean he is not human in any way, which is your great dodge whenever I support your own humanizations (which you contradict by also insisting that he is selfless), or suggest different ones (e.g. experimentation, the pleasure of making discoveries or having new ideas) in order to counter your ridicule of him as a messy, cumbersome, inefficient designer. Stop dodging!

Totally wrong. God is not an inefficient designer of organisms. His evolutionary method of creation is!!

Balance of Nature: human

DAVID: The USA record of carbon control is very good. Why bother with Paris if the giants, India and China, ignore all the rules? […]

dhw: […] If nations are governed by rulers who do not want to cooperate, there is no hope of a solution. Currently, this is clearly the case with the US. How can the necessary pressure be put on non-cooperative nations if the world’s most powerful economic nation sets the tone by going its own way?

DAVID: But look at our carbon results. Reduced!!!

dhw: And look at your excellent loggers, who replant trees. Yes, indeed, you fully approve of an approach whereby measures to eradicate the dangers of environmental catastrophe are balanced by the need to avoid social and economic catastrophe, i.e. these measures should be taken as quickly as pragmatically possible. And you would like other nations to do the same. And you agree that this will not happen unless all nations cooperate. But you approve of your president prioritising American economic interests and turning his back on the only possible means of achieving international cooperation, which is for nations like the US to join together in putting pressure on those nations which – as you put it – are ignoring the rules.

International pressure isn't working now, is it? The Paris accord is just what it is, a bunch of useless documents. Only strength works. If the world applied hurtful sanctions India and China might respond properly.