The sky is
the limit. And we have reached it.
F.G.Helmke
The
distance from sea level up to the peak of Mount Everest is probably as much as
from your home to where you work. If it were horizontal you could walk there in
less than two hours. If it weren’t so rocky you could slide down there in forty
minutes. That's not very high at all! But up there you have already 70% less oxygen.
So as you see this World doesn't have an unlimited amount of air! To the
contrary, the effective* thickness of the atmosphere is only 8.2km! (*measured at sea level conditions). That's from where you are right now to somewhere very near to where you are right now.
So our atmosphere is actually as thin as a soap bubble in comparison to the size of the Earth! Just because you can't see its limit doesn't mean it doesn't exist and that you can pump an ever increasing amount of carbon dioxide into it. Scientists estimate that if nothing gets done temperatures will rise another 6 degrees Celsius long before the end of this century, and our world will simply be uninhabitable. And we all know as long as there is oil probably nothing will get done.
So our atmosphere is actually as thin as a soap bubble in comparison to the size of the Earth! Just because you can't see its limit doesn't mean it doesn't exist and that you can pump an ever increasing amount of carbon dioxide into it. Scientists estimate that if nothing gets done temperatures will rise another 6 degrees Celsius long before the end of this century, and our world will simply be uninhabitable. And we all know as long as there is oil probably nothing will get done.
There is a
very simple experiment you can do: put a pot of milk on your stove and start
heating it up. Don’t turn off the stove. Just wait for what will happen. The
result of this experiment will show you that you can’t heat up things
indefinitely without serious consequences.
Another good experiment is filling up a pressure cooker with lentils almost up to the brim and put it on the fire. This experiment will teach you that there is only one safe moment to turn off the fire, and that’s the very moment when you realize that you made a mistake. Then you have to leave the room, because he next moment it might explode just as mine did. Unfortunately this is exactly what we are doing to our planet. It’s now or forget it, buddy!
Another good experiment is filling up a pressure cooker with lentils almost up to the brim and put it on the fire. This experiment will teach you that there is only one safe moment to turn off the fire, and that’s the very moment when you realize that you made a mistake. Then you have to leave the room, because he next moment it might explode just as mine did. Unfortunately this is exactly what we are doing to our planet. It’s now or forget it, buddy!
“They ate
and drank and got married (or merry, and didn’t worry) until the day the flood
came”, Jesus said about the people at the time of Noah. Mankind hasn’t changed
since. But when God speaks about the end of the world he speaks about the end
of this kind of world where greed and ignorance rule. Not the one he created.
Jesus said the day it burns he will come back with a big fire extinguisher and
rescue us! I suppose he would prefer to leave it up to us to take care of this
beautiful creation, and not to intervene, but there seems to be not much of an
alternative.
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