Evil Raises Its Ugly Head
All that’s needed for evil to thrive is the inaction of human kind. This is hardly an original truism but it is evident now more than ever. In the name of global warming junk science and “not in my back yard” selfish politics, this nation has failed to take action to take care of its energy needs. As a result, not just this nation but the entire world is entering an era of great suffering. According to the World Food Program, this world has entered into its first global food crisis since World War II. What was once caused by nearly a decade of world war, has now been matched by extreme environmentalist and liberal politics which think if we bury our head in the sand the need for oil will go away.
For decades now we have failed to drill for new oil sources, even in those places which we know hold large deposits. We have failed to build new nuclear plants even as countries such as France have safely integrated such plants throughout their energy system and in the final irony; we have diverted thousands of acres of farm production to raising crops not for food but to turn into ethanol. The result could have been predicted by any freshman economics major. Rising fuel and food prices are now causing a world wide crisis and millions if not tens of millions have their very lives threatened.
According to the Associated Press; ‘Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N.'s food aid organization, ‘projects providing meals to children in Kenya, Cambodia and to poor families in Tajikistan have already been hit. There have also been reports of rice riots in Caribbean island nations. Twenty million humans are at risk and the problem could get much worse. As the crisis spreads, developed nations will be hard pressed to provide food for the poor of the world and the cost will rise dramatically.’ Decades of economic growth among the poorest of nations is now threatened and as a result, so is world peace. Prosperous growing nations that give hope to their people tend to remain peaceful. When the people are hurting, starving and dieing, you can expect national conflicts to follow.
So while Americans deny the reality of needing oil to power cars, deny the relative safety of nuclear power and deny the irresponsibility of diverting food from crops to fuel, the world at large becomes desperate and the needs of the poor are neglected. People are beginning to die so that we can feel good about ourselves. $4.00 a gallon gasoline is inconvenient for us but it is the difference between life and death for the needy. We need common sense solutions not politically motivated reactions. I hate that millions will die because we refuse to look at the issue seriously and refuse to take on our responsibility.
There is no problem with wanting clean energy sources but they have to be developed first. Until they are developed we continue to need oil. We won’t drill and pump it ourselves so we send billions to terrorists to ship it across the world to us. And millions will starve to death. We were afraid for the eggs of the bald eagles and, without proof, eliminated DDT not just from our nation but demanded that it be denied world wide. As a result millions have died and continued to die from malaria. Our response … “Lets send them nets!” How many want to walk around work and through town wearing a net in terribly hot weather? If we had allowed DDT to be produced and used in third world countries millions of people would still be alive today. If we had taken on the need to provide for our oil needs, millions of people would not be facing starvation today. Our failure to act responsibly has unleashed evil upon the world.
A faith perspective on current events. By: Fr. Steven Foppiano
