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Earth Rising is a blog about being alive in the 21st century. We believe in living life to the hilt, to the best of our abilities, and to the glory of God. What’s our one-word focus? Stewardship. Our aim is to think critically about the unending plethora of issues that are besieging life on Earth to…

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    Man Caused Climate Change: The Basics

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2016 6:04


    The climate change/global warming alarmist movement is desperate. Now, rather than openly debate the science surrounding this issue, attorneys general in multiple states are attempting to criminalize dissent. This seems ...

    A Gorilla, A Boy, and the Decline of Human Dignity

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2016 4:14


    On May 29, 2016, a 3 or 4 year-old boy (sources differ on his age) was visiting the Cincinnati Zoo with his mother. As boys sometimes do, he got into ...

    Greenpeace Being Sued for Racketeering

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2016 4:02


    Greenpeace, and quite a few of their allies, are being sued by Resolute Forest Products Inc. on charges of racketeering. The lawsuit comes in response to Greenpeace’s crusade accusing Resolute ...

    Socialist North Korea and Capitalist South Korea: An Experiment We Ignore at Our Peril

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2016 7:47


    Korea offers a tale of two cities, one that should give pause to anyone enamored of socialism. At a recent UN Climate Summit, Bolivian Presidente Evo Morales said, “The world is suffering ...

    Green Bible: Is Climate Change Worse Than Hell?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2016 6:52


    Is your Bible good enough to eat? This strange question occurred to me when I heard an interesting conversation between a student and her teacher. The young girl questioned the ...

    The Watermelons Are Coming

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2016 6:25


    “Recently I was foolish enough to try to reason with an environmentalist,” wrote Stanford economist Thomas Sowell. “But it became obvious that he had his mind made up and didn’t want ...

    Voluntary Human Extinction?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2016 7:17


    George Orwell’s Animal Farm tells of the visionary pig Old Major, who had a dream that soon proved disastrous: “And now, comrades, I will tell you about my dream of last ...

    Review: Mere Environmentalism: A Biblical Perspective on Humans and the Natural World

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2016 2:29


    Mere Environmentalism, by Steven F. Hayward, is packed with a surprising amount of information about the broad subject of environmentalism, and includes information on the best way for Bible believing ...

    Orwellian Global Warming Dreams

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2016 6:49


    In March a group of Democratic attorneys general formed “AG’s United for Clean Power.” It sounds nice enough, doesn’t it? New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, standing beside a grinning ...

    Book Review: Social Justice: How Good Intentions Undermine Justice and Gospel

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2016 2:24


    Justice is a hot topic in today’s culture. People are very interested in determining whether justice is being properly and faithfully carried out. It is a common interest across cultures, ...

    What Can We Lose Fighting Climate Change?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2016 7:08


    What do we have to lose? This is a frequent response when someone questions the idea that human caused runaway global warming should be addressed. At the 2015 Paris Climate ...

    “Trans-speciesism”: Tree huggers’ new progressive frontier

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2016 5:46


    EarthFirst! is reeling from internal tensions just now as President Obama’s transsexual activists are on a witch hunt for those in the group not progressive enough on sexuality. A recent ...

    The Burden Less Carried

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2016 6:44


    They say that in selling or buying property the key is always: location, location, location. If you’re trying to sell a 3-bed, 2-bath apartment with all new appliances and superb ...

    What Scientific Idiot Would Say this about Climate Change?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2016 3:57


    An email I received included in its thread one from someone saying this: This morning I got out my little toy telescope and watched Mercury transiting the Sun. The striking fact ...

    Fighting Global Warming—For Which Children’s Sake?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2016 4:39


    On May 14, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has failed to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as required by Massachusetts’s ...

    A role model for the next generation: “The Man Who Fed the World”

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2016 4:43


    The Indian Agricultural Ministry released estimated food grain numbers on Monday, projecting growth despite a drought that has hit eleven states. That’s great news for Indian farmers, and consumers alike. ...

    Can fighting global warming save your soul?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2016 6:18


    What does it take to be a good person? Different cultures have different answers. The floors of Karni Mata Temple in Rajasthan, India, heave as masses of fat rats clamber ...

    AGU Continues to Take Money from Oil Companies

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2016 6:38


    When I first attended the Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in 1995 it was undoubtedly one of the goals of many of the PhD students and postdocs at the ...

    What Would Edmund Muskie Say about the Clean Power Plan?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2016 5:59


    University of Notre Dame law professor John Copeland Nagle, an insightful commentator on environmental law and ethics, published an article on the Scientific American blog April 22 (Earth Day) that harks back to comments by the ...

    Dogs Aren’t People. Why PETA Is Wrong About the ‘Dog Whisperer’

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2016 6:50


    The Humane Society reports well over 2.4 million healthy cats and dogs are put down annually in U.S. animal shelters. That works out to be just over one euthanized every ...

    Stop calling me a ‘denier’: Debating science is honorable, not evil

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2016 6:00


    We’ve all read the articles, and heard the voices of doom. The earth is going to get really hot, it’s all humans’ fault, and we must make drastic economic changes ...

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