1 00:00:05,099 --> 00:00:10,000 Greetings, this is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,480 with a moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and 3 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:22,359 faith. And today, what is the real agenda behind the global warming climate change crisis? 4 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:28,480 Several weeks ago, we documented the unsettling nature of the settled science 5 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:34,679 behind global warming and climate change. Now, I covered the 10 most disturbing 6 00:00:34,679 --> 00:00:41,479 scientific fallacies behind the claims of global warming, and I refer you to that podcast, 7 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:49,719 and you can find it on our website, americastruths.org, americastruths.org. 8 00:00:50,079 --> 00:00:56,100 Now, we emphasize there that rather than oscillating between one of two extremes, that is, 9 00:00:56,439 --> 00:01:01,780 raping and pillaging the earth, polluting and destroying creation, or on the other hand, 10 00:01:01,780 --> 00:01:08,180 worshiping and reverencing it, that is, making a goddess of mother nature, and worshiping the 11 00:01:08,180 --> 00:01:15,019 creature instead of the creator, as Paul says, God has rather intended for us to shepherd and husband 12 00:01:15,019 --> 00:01:23,180 the earth. And the Bible confirms this. Genesis 1.28 says of Adam and Eve, God blessed them. 13 00:01:23,459 --> 00:01:30,140 And God said to them, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over 14 00:01:30,140 --> 00:01:35,140 the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves on 15 00:01:35,140 --> 00:01:43,319 the earth. But when it comes to climate change, if all of the hysteria over something so vague, 16 00:01:43,799 --> 00:01:52,340 undefinable, and ambiguous as climate change, global warming, can provoke the chicken little response 17 00:01:52,340 --> 00:01:57,200 we see in our world today, where instead of the sky is falling, we run around exclaiming, 18 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:03,760 the sky is warming, and we do it with no solid science to back it up, then what is the real 19 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:09,680 purpose for all of the excitement? Now, dear listener, all we ask is that you give consideration 20 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:17,620 to a far more realistic and sensible explanation than what appears on the surface of what we hear 21 00:02:17,620 --> 00:02:24,039 from the global warming crowd. The science really does not justify the solution. 22 00:02:24,039 --> 00:02:34,460 And the solution is 1984 Orwellian in its breathtaking sweep. Dear listener, you will give up your private 23 00:02:34,460 --> 00:02:42,479 vehicle for mass transit systems. You will surrender your rural suburban private home of multiple hundreds, 24 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:49,680 yea, even thousands of square feet as we live in now, for a 300-foot coffin apartment in a high-rise 25 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:57,460 complex in a crowded megalopolis. You will give up your steak, pork chop, and roast chicken meat diet 26 00:02:57,460 --> 00:03:05,379 in order to eat bug protein. You will be restricted to a one-child policy, as we have seen in China. 27 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:11,819 You will come under the scrutiny of an electronic surveillance system that monitors your every 28 00:03:11,819 --> 00:03:16,960 purchase, every keystroke on every device, and every heartbeat and breath of every minute of every day. 29 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:26,879 Oh, all of this is in the interest of saving the planet. Really? Really, dear advocates, you want me to 30 00:03:26,879 --> 00:03:34,240 surrender my life to a dreary, monotonous existence with no future, under the control of a few masters 31 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:41,180 who are not subject themselves to my same constructions. Now, you don't really think that Bill Gates or 32 00:03:41,180 --> 00:03:47,300 Klaus Schwab or John Kerry or Al Gore or Barack Obama and their banker friends will actually go 33 00:03:47,300 --> 00:03:54,599 without, like we are expected to do. Oh, and we do this all for the sake of an emergency, which cannot 34 00:03:54,599 --> 00:04:00,139 be shown to be real and which cannot demonstrate when it will be over either, but rather can be 35 00:04:00,139 --> 00:04:07,699 perpetuated. This emergency, this emergency can be perpetuated indefinitely. No, no, no, no. 36 00:04:07,699 --> 00:04:13,979 Dear listeners, something else is at work here, and we do not have to search very far to find out just 37 00:04:13,979 --> 00:04:20,519 what that is. Three points I want to make with you in this regard. Number one, the radical draconian 38 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:28,759 solutions to global warming give tyrants a perfect opportunity to acquire power and extract wealth. 39 00:04:28,879 --> 00:04:36,300 That's precisely what's going on here with the global warming scam. It is radical draconian solutions 40 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:45,720 to global warming also coincidentally give tyrants a perfect opportunity to acquire power and extract 41 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:52,540 wealth from us. Since global warming is supposed to be a worldwide global threat, well then the solution 42 00:04:52,540 --> 00:05:00,040 must be equally worldwide and global. And this mere bald assertion gives the global warming ruse 43 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:07,740 something elegant that makes it perfect for tyrants, right? Every aspiring tyrant from Nimrod to Nixon, 44 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:16,300 from Lamech to Barak, has sought worldwide domination. And now, with the advent of a worldwide crisis, 45 00:05:16,740 --> 00:05:25,240 albeit fabricated, a worldwide system must also be imposed. For example, the influential Intergovernmental 46 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:33,439 Panel on Climate Change, very influential established by the United Nations, they say stabilizing temperature 47 00:05:33,439 --> 00:05:41,120 increase to below two degrees centigrade relative to pre-industrial levels will require an urgent and 48 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:48,639 fundamental departure from business as usual. They also say we have to act. We need a whole of society 49 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:56,180 approach. No one can be left out. No household, no business, no government. Oh, and Governor Newsom of 50 00:05:56,180 --> 00:06:04,000 California, he calls for a whole government approach. You see what's coming, dear listener? And the international 51 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:10,139 banker, Eric Heyman of Deutsche Bank, he comes right out and says it baldly. He says, and I quote him, 52 00:06:10,139 --> 00:06:17,779 I know that eco-dictatorship is a nasty word, but we may have to ask ourselves a question, whether and to 53 00:06:17,779 --> 00:06:24,920 what extent we may be willing to accept some kind of eco-dictatorship in order to move towards climate 54 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:32,879 neutrality, unquote. But when protests are raised against so obvious a power play, well, a familiar 55 00:06:32,879 --> 00:06:39,060 argument is trotted out, which has been used by almost every tyrant in history, and that is necessity. 56 00:06:39,060 --> 00:06:47,480 Necessity. Necessity. Yes, William Pitt says of necessity when spoken by governments, and I quote 57 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:53,579 Pitt. He says, necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument 58 00:06:53,579 --> 00:07:02,360 of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves. Yes, necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom, 59 00:07:02,459 --> 00:07:08,079 isn't it? Do you remember how this creed of slaves has been used recently, right? It was necessary to 60 00:07:08,079 --> 00:07:14,279 lock down the world for an elusive virus. It was necessary to shut down businesses and wear useless, 61 00:07:14,660 --> 00:07:20,819 stupid masks and avoid human contact. It was necessary to take an experimental gene therapy 62 00:07:20,819 --> 00:07:29,079 masked as a vaccine. Oh, now it has become necessary to shut down all of civilization in order to lower the 63 00:07:29,079 --> 00:07:34,500 earth's temperature by a few degrees. An elusive goal, admittedly, by all. An elusive goal, 64 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:40,600 no one has that even clearly articulated, can be achieved. Yet, when global chicken littles are 65 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:46,560 confronted with this reality and the threat to our constitutional liberty and the centuries of 66 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:52,120 culture it has taken to form it, they have what has become a trite response. You'll hear this a lot. 67 00:07:52,540 --> 00:07:59,519 This time, it's different. Oh, how ominous that is, isn't it? You'll hear this cliche repeated, 68 00:07:59,519 --> 00:08:05,800 ad nauseum. This time, it's different. Oh, yeah? Hmm. Different from the time when King Nebuchadnezzar 69 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:10,860 thought it was necessary for the whole world to bow down to his image? It's different from the time 70 00:08:10,860 --> 00:08:16,519 when Caesar thought it necessary to enroll the whole world in a census? Do you think it's different from 71 00:08:16,519 --> 00:08:22,519 when Caesar Nero thought it necessary for the whole world to pay homage to himself as the beast from the 72 00:08:22,519 --> 00:08:29,319 sea? Is it really different from when tyrants like Hitler or Stalin or Mao thought it necessary to see 73 00:08:29,319 --> 00:08:37,519 the whole world bend to the historical inevitability of the Marxist revolution? Oh, no. This time and 74 00:08:37,519 --> 00:08:43,580 place really is no different. There's no difference between the tyranny of the past and that which is 75 00:08:43,580 --> 00:08:49,600 proposed to come. Whether it be a tyranny of a one-man dictator or a committee in the French Revolution 76 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:56,960 or an eco-dictatorship of the present day, it is still a dictatorship that is an unwarranted tyranny. 77 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:05,080 And then, who will lead this whole-of-government approach, this eco-dictatorship? While no single 78 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:11,120 individual or government has stepped up to seize the reins of power, at least yet, a likely candidate 79 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:18,460 is assuming the mantle of power, and that is the United Nations. Yes, the United Nations. The World 80 00:09:18,460 --> 00:09:24,360 Bank, which is the final, or I'm sorry, the financial instrument. The World Bank is the financial 81 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:31,700 instrument of the United Nations, by which the United Nations exercises power and influence. Well, the 82 00:09:31,700 --> 00:09:40,639 World Bank has an entire web page entitled Climate Change Governance. Very important title, Climate Change 83 00:09:40,639 --> 00:09:48,980 Governance. Now, the World Bank dictates policy worldwide via directing loans to developing countries. 84 00:09:48,980 --> 00:09:56,700 They do so insofar as government complies with the United Nations, their approved climate change 85 00:09:56,700 --> 00:10:03,240 policy. If you do, you get the money. If you don't, ha, sorry, Charlie. Now, this dictation will only 86 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:11,320 increase in detail and severity as the climate crisis deepens. And with the Intergovernmental Panel on 87 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:17,740 Climate Change, I can't overstress the importance of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 88 00:10:17,740 --> 00:10:24,580 formed by the United Nations being the most influential body on climate change policy in the 89 00:10:24,580 --> 00:10:31,740 whole world. Well, it only stands to reason that the United Nations will be by default the body which 90 00:10:31,740 --> 00:10:38,179 at least serves as the international clearinghouse for climate policy, if not its actual eco-dictator. 91 00:10:38,179 --> 00:10:44,279 Many of the governments that play an integral part in the United Nations have deep roots in another 92 00:10:44,279 --> 00:10:51,080 worldwide movement. And that brings me to point number two. That is the close association of 93 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:59,740 environmentalism with Marxism in the recent past makes global warming a perfect issue to impose the 94 00:10:59,740 --> 00:11:07,299 Marxist utopian state on the world. Yes, the close association of environmentalism and Marxism 95 00:11:07,299 --> 00:11:16,000 in the recent past makes global warming a perfect issue to impose a Marxist utopian state on the entire 96 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:23,139 world. Now, in both America and especially in Europe, Marxism, when it could not win over the hearts and 97 00:11:23,139 --> 00:11:29,600 minds of the people on its own merits, it allied itself with green politics. Are you surprised? 98 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:37,779 Actually, when we examine both suitors for absolute power, we should not be surprised. Green politics has 99 00:11:37,779 --> 00:11:44,700 long been associated with totalitarianism. How many people know, for example, that the Nazis were green? 100 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:51,299 Hitler himself was a vegetarian, asserting that meat production wasted the vast amount of grain that was 101 00:11:51,299 --> 00:11:59,320 produced by the Volk, by the people. He also experimented with replacing coal with hydroelectric and wind power, too. 102 00:11:59,519 --> 00:12:10,379 Well, an author, Rupert, Rupert Darwall, excuse me, the author, Rupert Darwall, in his book, Green Tyranny, and the 103 00:12:10,379 --> 00:12:18,299 subtitle on that book, Green Tyranny, is exposing the totalitarian roots of the climate industrial complex. 104 00:12:18,299 --> 00:12:26,320 A very revealing title. Well, Darwall establishes the deep connection between, first, the national 105 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:34,379 socialism of fascist Germany, and secondly, the Marxism of the socialist West with green environmentalism. 106 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:41,740 Environmentalism, like a naive teenage girl infatuated with rock and roll bad boys. Well, 107 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:48,220 environmentalism has, by its very nature, always been attracted to totalitarian ideology. 108 00:12:48,299 --> 00:12:55,980 It is, after all, the only means by which environmentalism may achieve her aspirations for transforming the 109 00:12:55,980 --> 00:13:04,580 planet, quote-unquote. Well, beginning in Sweden in the 60s, always a beacon Sweden, a beacon of socialism in the 110 00:13:04,580 --> 00:13:13,600 non-communist West. Well, environmentalism gained in Sweden a foothold. Prime Minister Olof Palme became a famous 111 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:19,580 advocate for green policies during the acid rain controversy of the 70s and 80s. Some of you gray 112 00:13:19,580 --> 00:13:27,539 hairs may remember this controversy. Palme allied himself with Marxists all through Europe, and he was 113 00:13:27,539 --> 00:13:34,860 deeply critical of the United States. This toxic marriage of environmental politics and Marxist 114 00:13:34,860 --> 00:13:41,799 philosophy spread then to Germany and eventually to the United States. That marriage made in hell 115 00:13:41,799 --> 00:13:52,179 now has a name. Eco-Marxism. Eco-Marxism. Now, to the modern advocates of green communism, Marx was 116 00:13:52,179 --> 00:13:57,879 always green. Surprise, surprise. Just when you thought that Marxism had been consigned to the dustbin of 117 00:13:57,879 --> 00:14:04,019 history after its utter failure in the laboratory of the real world in every country in which it was 118 00:14:04,019 --> 00:14:12,559 tried, well, abracadabra, Marx appears reborn from red to green. Eco-Marx, right? For example, 119 00:14:12,879 --> 00:14:18,639 University of Miami economics professor George Gonzalez writes that, and I quote him, 120 00:14:18,639 --> 00:14:26,019 the eco-Marxist contention is that the writings of Marx and Frederick Engels contain a thorough 121 00:14:26,019 --> 00:14:33,220 ecological critique of capitalism. Unquote. Oh, it's amazing what you can find in a failed 122 00:14:33,220 --> 00:14:40,600 philosophy when you love it enough. This newly refurbished menace now promises not only to 123 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:46,519 redistribute wealth and the means of production to the proletariat as it used to do when it was red, 124 00:14:46,519 --> 00:14:55,000 but now will make of the earth a renovated paradise now that it's green, bringing eco-justice 125 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:01,899 to the oppressed, and returning to nature through sustainable degrowth. Another buzzword. Eco-justice 126 00:15:01,899 --> 00:15:07,980 and sustainable degrowth. Those are two buzzwords that you have to be very careful of with eco-Marxism. 127 00:15:08,399 --> 00:15:15,740 And what they intend to do then is dismantle all of Western civilization and what we produce and use 128 00:15:15,740 --> 00:15:22,860 and enjoy as the fruits of our labor. All this goes away under eco-Marxism. It goes to show once more 129 00:15:22,860 --> 00:15:33,480 that there's really no philosophy so irrational and unworkable, but that some professor on some 130 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:40,080 campus somewhere will not espouse it. And that's true of eco-Marxism. And it's embraced not only by 131 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:46,019 professors in their ivory towers, but also by politicians in the halls of Congress. Exhibit A 132 00:15:46,019 --> 00:15:54,139 is the so-called Green New Deal bill introduced by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a dozen other 133 00:15:54,139 --> 00:16:00,179 colleagues, which would ensconce, encode a sweeping transformation. This congressional bill 134 00:16:00,179 --> 00:16:08,879 would code a sweeping transformation of the American landscape and invoke an eco-dictatorship to enforce 135 00:16:08,879 --> 00:16:14,639 its provisions. And as Mark Levin has aptly pointed out in his book, American Marxism, 136 00:16:14,639 --> 00:16:20,759 and I encourage you to read that book. There's a whole chapter on the Green New Deal and American 137 00:16:20,759 --> 00:16:28,799 Marxism. He says, it is a ludicrous Marxist-centered bill, unquote. And he includes, Levin does, 138 00:16:29,259 --> 00:16:37,059 the substance of the entire bill so that we can get a grasp upon exactly how extensive is the Marxist 139 00:16:37,059 --> 00:16:43,759 tyranny, which will be practically strapped across our backs and meant to bear by every 140 00:16:43,759 --> 00:16:50,759 American. Well, what will be the consequences for us then, dear listener? Well, the consequences will 141 00:16:50,759 --> 00:16:59,059 be my point number three, and that is the remedies for global warming will inevitably impoverish all of 142 00:16:59,059 --> 00:17:07,440 us, take away our God-given inalienable rights, and make of us futile serfs, hearkening back to the 143 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:14,519 Middle Ages. And I'm not being overdramatic on this. The remedies for global warming, as they're outlined 144 00:17:14,519 --> 00:17:22,859 even by the advocates themselves, the remedies for global warming will inevitably impoverish all of us, 145 00:17:22,859 --> 00:17:30,579 take away our God-given inalienable rights, and make of us futile serfs, hearkening back to the 146 00:17:30,579 --> 00:17:38,359 Middle Ages. The history of humanity is not liberty, dear listener, but slavery. Now, as I have argued 147 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:45,160 elsewhere, the default setting of the human soul, and that is apart from God, the default setting of the 148 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:51,740 human soul apart from God is slavery, which history bears out abundantly. I've referenced this elsewhere, 149 00:17:51,740 --> 00:17:58,319 and you can find this on our website, americastruths.org as well. Liberty, that is true biblical freedom, 150 00:17:58,579 --> 00:18:05,180 is the rare exception in history, and the luminous jewel in that history of liberty is, of course, 151 00:18:05,380 --> 00:18:11,779 the American Constitutional Republic that we have known for some 400 years now, if we include the 152 00:18:11,779 --> 00:18:19,279 colonial period, which I always do. This is what is at stake in this debate, dear listener. If you think 153 00:18:19,279 --> 00:18:25,859 I'm being maybe a bit overdramatic, well, just consider one factor which has already begun your slide into 154 00:18:25,859 --> 00:18:32,259 poverty, that is the shutting down of oil pipelines and the strangling of U.S. sources of energy in the 155 00:18:32,259 --> 00:18:38,240 name of green energy by the Biden administration. And it has spiked the cost of gasoline from the 156 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:48,119 some $2.50 range, $2.50 range, over $5 per gallon now, oscillating, isn't it, between. All Americans have 157 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:56,599 felt this effect of eco-Marxism in their wallets. But to eco-Marxists, it's a necessary step in what 158 00:18:56,599 --> 00:19:03,440 they are calling a transition. You've heard that term before too, right? Oh, this is only a transition to 159 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:09,160 the workers' eco-paradise. But it's only the beginning, dear listener. The Green New Deal, 160 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:16,119 when fully implemented, would also, and I want to bring out three points from the Green New Deal 161 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:23,799 proposed in Congress. The Green New Deal, when fully implemented, would also, number one, achieve 162 00:19:23,799 --> 00:19:31,000 net zero greenhouse gas emissions. That's one of the aims. Achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions, 163 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:37,740 which means, practically, taking all gasoline engine-driven vehicles off the road, closing 164 00:19:37,740 --> 00:19:44,960 all fossil fuel-burning power plants, and forcing you to find other means of heating your tiny home, 165 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:51,039 other means than oil, gas, or wood-burning fuels. And as critics have rightly observed, there really 166 00:19:51,039 --> 00:19:57,079 is no workable alternative yet in place, right? Just go out and buy an electric car, yeah, easier said 167 00:19:57,079 --> 00:20:06,539 than done, nor is there a workable alternative on the horizon. In fact, so ill-prepared is eco-Marxism, 168 00:20:06,539 --> 00:20:13,839 eco-Marxism, so ill-prepared are they to sustainably replace fossil fuels, that it makes one wonder 169 00:20:13,839 --> 00:20:19,579 whether there really is any intention whatsoever of sustaining the level of wealth and prosperity 170 00:20:19,579 --> 00:20:26,940 of the American people, or whether the unstated purpose is to drive us into poverty and want after 171 00:20:26,940 --> 00:20:34,420 all. And that's the conclusion that I have come to when the Green New Deal tries to achieve net zero 172 00:20:34,420 --> 00:20:42,819 greenhouse gas emissions. It's to drive you and me into poverty and want. Well, secondly, the Green New 173 00:20:42,819 --> 00:20:51,039 Deal also wants to, and I quote, promote justice and equity by stopping current, preventing future, 174 00:20:51,380 --> 00:20:59,000 and repairing historic oppression on behalf of frontline and vulnerable communities. What is that, right? 175 00:20:59,599 --> 00:21:06,720 This is eco-babble for redistributing wealth to the favored groups of the green tyrants who have the rule 176 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:15,059 over us. And we already see this redistribution of wealth at work. We see it manifest in policies like 177 00:21:15,059 --> 00:21:22,599 reparations for the descendants of black slaves and guaranteed outcomes for indigenous peoples, that is 178 00:21:22,599 --> 00:21:30,799 Native Americans, whose land we now unjustly occupy. And so therefore, wealth must be redistributed to them 179 00:21:30,799 --> 00:21:37,740 for the sake of eco-justice. Well, these are just two examples of equity, that is guaranteed equal 180 00:21:37,740 --> 00:21:48,019 outcomes versus equality, which is equal opportunities, not outcomes, equal opportunities for all. So whenever 181 00:21:48,019 --> 00:21:54,519 you hear the buzzword eco-justice, hold onto your wallet because you're about to be fleeced again by 182 00:21:54,519 --> 00:22:00,619 socialists who think they know better than the marketplace. Who deserves what? 183 00:22:00,799 --> 00:22:08,279 But it is consistent, dear listener. All of this is consistent with what the former chair of the IPCC, 184 00:22:08,660 --> 00:22:15,299 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, what they have said in the past about the real purpose 185 00:22:15,299 --> 00:22:22,579 of the worldwide green movement. And that was said by Dr. Atmar Adenhofer, who was the co-chair of the 186 00:22:22,579 --> 00:22:32,259 IPCC from 2008 to 2015. What did he say? Well, he says quite baldly, he says, we redistribute de facto 187 00:22:32,259 --> 00:22:39,019 the world's wealth by climate policy. He's come right out and said it. We redistribute de facto the 188 00:22:39,019 --> 00:22:46,519 world's wealth by climate policy. Oh, behold the real agenda behind the Green New Deal. And then thirdly, 189 00:22:46,519 --> 00:22:53,799 the Green New Deal also hopes to work with farmers and ranchers to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas 190 00:22:53,799 --> 00:23:01,160 emissions from the agricultural sector. Oh yeah. Work with farmers. You mean impose on farmers and ranchers 191 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:07,119 to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector. Well, dear listener, 192 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:15,960 here's the cow fart factor. Oh, the cow fart factor. To the eco-Marxist, farming and ranching are rife 193 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:22,200 with greenhouse gases and pollution. For example, we are already seeing farms in nations like Holland 194 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:29,420 being shut down because of nitrogen pollution ostensibly. Here in the United States, beef is being 195 00:23:29,420 --> 00:23:35,500 villainized as a greenhouse gas polluter. Factors like the inefficient use of grains to feed cattle 196 00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:40,759 when it could be used to feed people, or the cow farts, which are de facto greenhouse gas emissions, 197 00:23:41,039 --> 00:23:49,019 and even the sequestration of large tracts of land to graze grass-fed cattle, which is indeed the 198 00:23:49,019 --> 00:23:56,920 organic way to do this. Well, these sequestrations of land are huge waste of precious resources, at least 199 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:04,119 to the eco-Marxist. And beef production in America accounts for billions of pounds of carbon dioxide 200 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:09,940 as well every year, according to the eco-Marxist. Well, what have we then to save the day? Oh, 201 00:24:09,940 --> 00:24:16,480 bugs. That's their answer, bugs. Both Klaus Schwab and even Pope Francis have advocated that the 202 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:22,660 faithful begin developing a taste for bug protein instead of the injurious to the environment beef, 203 00:24:22,859 --> 00:24:29,619 pork, and chicken protein, to which we are accustomed. To the eco-Marxist, food in general must become 204 00:24:29,619 --> 00:24:36,500 rarer and more costly to the human in order to conserve the Earth's resources and keep her green. 205 00:24:36,500 --> 00:24:42,059 In other words, dear listener, you will eat your bugs and porridge and you'll be happy with your lot 206 00:24:42,059 --> 00:24:49,859 or else. Oh, dear listener, taken together, all of the elements of the Green New Deal become historically 207 00:24:49,859 --> 00:24:57,099 the tired old components of the black raw deal of meta-evil serfdom. The proponents of the Green New 208 00:24:57,099 --> 00:25:02,420 Deal are really no different than the masters of the feudal manner. They want the best for themselves. 209 00:25:02,579 --> 00:25:09,440 You don't really think that our lords will eat bugs and live in tiny houses. No. And they want the least 210 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:16,339 for you. They will be your masters and they will make you feel it. And one cannot escape this conclusion 211 00:25:16,339 --> 00:25:22,599 looking at what is being proposed for us and comparing it with history. But this is not what God 212 00:25:22,599 --> 00:25:28,460 intends for you, dear listener, in His Son, Jesus Christ. True liberty has characterized the believer. 213 00:25:29,079 --> 00:25:34,900 If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples and you will know the truth and the truth will set 214 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:41,779 you free, as Jesus says. That truth is first and foremost a spiritual liberty. It is freedom from the burden 215 00:25:41,779 --> 00:25:48,319 and curse of sin. It is salvation in Jesus Christ. But that's not all. New life in Christ has repercussions 216 00:25:48,319 --> 00:25:54,700 for all of life. And that liberty soon frees a man in his own personal life with his family and finally 217 00:25:54,700 --> 00:26:00,000 into his community, including the world of his work and culture and government institutions. 218 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:07,660 It's taken centuries, yea, millennia. But that original spiritual liberty has brought us the untold wealth 219 00:26:07,660 --> 00:26:14,500 and opportunity we know in Christian civilization, culminating in the liberty found in our 220 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:20,660 constitutional republic. Are you willing to sacrifice all of this, dear listener, to the tyranny of the 221 00:26:20,660 --> 00:26:27,140 Green New Deal? I will not. Hopefully, you will not. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva 222 00:26:27,140 --> 00:26:34,440 Orthodox Presbyterian Church. New Geneva meets for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the 223 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:49,700 corner of 4th and Boulevard. Call us for more information at area code 208-523-0196. Area code 203-208, excuse me, 208-523-0196.