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I’ll be honest, I have read and reread material trying to get a grasp on the predicament of global warming.  When it comes to the ice melting in the far north, I have to take their word for it.  Then there is “we never have winters like we used to.”  Well, when it comes to the struggling polar bears I have to trust the experts, and it could be true that winters are not as bad (my memory is not a reliable source), but what can I do?

Last month I read an article by Bryan Walsh in Time online titled, Meat: Making Global Warming Worse.  In the opening paragraph Walsh writes “it’s true that giving up that average 176lb. of meat a year is one of the greenest lifestyle changes you can make as an individual.”  Funny thing, I haven’t heard this mentioned in the political or even public scene. Later in the first paragraph two geophysicist are referenced having “estimated that if every American reduced meat consumption by just 20%, the greenhouse gas savings would be the same as if we all switched from a normal sedan to a hybrid Prius.” 

Before you assume I am bumptious in wagging this in front those who eat meat, give me one more paragraph.  Bryan Walsh closes his article with the idea that we should focus on political action for saving our planet because getting people to make personal choices will be much more difficult.  How ironic.  While we point our fingers at politics for being difficult, we have those three fingers pointing at what may be the more difficult problem.  Most often we identify the “organization” as the problem, and that is used as a dastardly salve for our own weakness in having personal disciplines. In point to what is hypocritical, I’m afraid reveal who is the hypocrite. This is where I find Paul – “I die daily.” (1 Corinthians 15:31)

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