It's fashionable to agree with Moyers' view of the world and his notion that he and others (environmentalists) are the only ones who can 'save' it. The earth is a powerful force that provides sustenance lives of men, to be sure. Certainly he and most of us would agree that science and capitalism has moved us from collective misery to a modicum of comfort and a better life, at least in the West. Wouldn't we?
Climate change is a phenomenon that has existed for hundreds of millions of years and has swung the earth's conditions wildly over the eons of time. Perhaps w/he give man too much credit for our ability to cause...or prevent... global warming. We are polluters, to be sure and we can clean up our act, but can we control the future of life on earth? I doubt it.
I doubt Moyers would suggest that man could control earthquakes or volcanoes or tides or the orbit of the earth around the sun or the rate of cooling of the earth's mantle. Yet these factors are responsible for the climate changes of history. Consider for a moment that man, evil as his nature is, is not a prime mover of the conditions on earth. God has set in motion the forces of Nature. Man is only a participant with an eternal destiny of everlasting life guaranteed by the death and resurrection of God's Son, Jesus...if we believe.
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