Will We Run Out of Resources In 12 Years?

  Years ago, back in the early 70s, I was looking for different places to order tracts from. Many of these companies sent out samples of their tracts. Sometimes, I would just order whatever sounded interesting and useful.

  There was a tract that was in comic form, and in many ways, it seemed like a scare tactic. I think we need to be careful, for on the one hand, we have to warn people about the 'wrath to come'. We need to tell people the Gospel message, so they don't have to spend eternity in hell. But on the other hand, we can so easily spend time using information in such a way that it is scary to people. We do that to get people to respond to whatever the message is that we are giving.

  The tract basically was pointing to the end of the world, and how bad things were going to be. Of course, there is nothing wrong with that in itself. People need to be prepared. But one of the things in this tract that was concerning was how it explained that we would run out of water in 10 years because of some condition going on in the world.

   I was not a very mature person at that time, but I did have enough common sense to ask myself what would happen if we did not run out of water in 10 years, and if other people read the tract, would that discredit the Gospel message?

  It's been forty-some years now since I read the tract, and we haven't run out of water yet. The point is though, that when we write something, it needs to have credibility. It needs to not be written from a wishful thinking viewpoint.

  We are now hearing reports about how we are going to run out of resources in 12 years. Many are predicting that life on earth will be way different 30 years from now. I get emails with people panicking from the concept of the damages of climate change and how we need to stop using things like gas and coal. There are people who believe this story and are preparing everyone to get ready for living in a primitive way again.

  First of all, God knows how many resources we still have available to us. He has provided us up to this point with the resources that we need to live on.

  Second, God calls us to be good stewards with everything we have been given. We are to take care of the earth, in the sense that we are responsible for what we have.

   In early American days, people used to hunt. But the people were wise enough to know that if we killed all the animals off, there would be nothing left for us to eat! So, some rules were made to protect the animals from being hunted at certain times of the year.

  It's true that people today, in many cases, do not do their part in taking care of their environment. They litter and do whatever is easiest for them, instead of cleaning up after themselves and putting garbage in the right places. Plastic bags have been found at the bottom of the depths of the ocean. This is the result of laziness and lack of being responsible people. This is totally wrong.

  Thirdly, there are places that replant trees that have been taken down. This is a great idea. It will help us to have paper and wood in the future (as well as Christmas trees!).

  The whole Climate Change narrative is just not accurate. It is a scare tactic to make us become overly concerned for something that isn't going to happen.

  We can mark this day, and in 12 years from now, let's see how much of this Climate Change scare tactic has come to pass.

  Let's be credible in the predictions we make.