<OT>We are going to be in trouble

[Alma J Wetzker]

Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Rick Sivernell wrote:
> 
>> Keith
>> This morn at church, I asked on of our ministers' to add Oz to to our 
>> list of prayers
>> due to the bad draught you are having. Maybe we can help with prayer 
>> from here. t will
>> not hurt.
>>
> 
> <sorry Lonnie, OT warps to new levels>
> 
> It is a nice thought to have empathy for someone in need, and if your 
> prayer leads to some collective action that might mitigate that need, 
> then so much the better.  But the prayer in and of itself will not help, 
> and in some sense, by thinking that prayer alone might help, you and 
> your congregation are deluding yourselves and thereby avoiding the more 
> complex issue of what material action might actually be taken to help 
> solve this problem.  It will be far more complicated, far more 
> long-term, and will require far more effort, analytical thought and 
> material sacrifice than prayer.  And after all of that, they might still 
> have a drought.
> 
> <liberal shields up>

Take your shields down Tony.  As I understand it, the climate is 
changing.even if everyone on the planet stopped using fossil fuels 
today, and Asia stopped using wood and coal for cooking, and Indonesia 
stopped burning off their forests, the climate would still be changing 
for another several decades.  No one on earth has a reasonable clue 
about what the climate will be like when it is all over.  In the mean 
time, the only practical thought for relief is a desalinization plant. 
Those puppies cost way more than I have in my bank account.  Prayer is 
the only thing I have to offer.  It might not do a thing, but then again...

     -- Alma