To the editor:

The planet is not in peril. Have you noticed the beauty outside? Orange, red, yellow, deep maroon, and good old green, on an immense canvas right before our eyes! God could have created the earth with no color. Some worry about the earth warming. Be thankful that the Siberian Tundra might warm enough to feed the 9 billion people that are predicted to inhabit the earth by 2050 (https://www.un.org › world-population-prospects-2017). But don’t count on that warming lasting a long time, because as the finite universe expands, basic scientific logic demonstrates that the further the earth gets from the sun, the cooler the temperatures will be. More people die every year from too-cold weather than from the effects of warm temperatures (Lomborg, Bjorn, False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet). The main point I want to make, however, is that followers of Jesus Christ can trust the same Creator-God who fashioned enormous dinosaurs and shimmering paramecia. Of course we are commanded to be good stewards of the earth God made for us, but don’t support governmental bills that throw around inconceivable amounts of money that cause greater harm than good (Lomborg, Bjorn, False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet). As the (Sing Hosanna) song goes, “He’s got the whole world in His hands.” Those who have not submitted to Jesus Christ, however should be terrified, but not of a planet that will be destroyed and then restored with Jesus as King, but of an eternity without Him.

Gigi Rysdahl

New Ulm