So we had our weekend of prayers for rain and God gave us a dramatic lightning storm but very little moisture. Since my church teaches that the glory of God is intelligence, I think he expects a little intelligence from Gov. Cox and the Legislature before He will be willing to intervene.
I think God, through his lighting storm, sent the message, “You fools brought this on yourselves and still have learned nothing. When might you repent and stop supporting the One Utah Roadmap that calls for yet more subsidizing of Utah’s coal, oil and gas industries that speed up climate change? When might you decide not to authorize such projects as $53 million to fund an Oakland coal export facility, $19 million for a Uintah Basin oil railway study to transport waxy crude to no known refinery willing or equipped to process it, and an Inland Port whose primary purpose would be to transport fossil fuels, via a huge fleet of magically nonpolluting diesel trucks? When do you stop hastening your own destruction? I cannot repair the damage you keep doing to my creation! This water was supposed to last!”
Climate warming continues to unravel Utah’s natural systems, drying up its streams, withering its brush lands, and turning its pine forests into vertical match sticks, drying up the Great Salt Lake to a toxic bed of dust. Our current drought -- 20 years and counting — is the deepest that the American West has suffered in more than a thousand years. According to a recent Columbia University study, the climate of the American West has already warmed by 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit, which has doubled our current drought’s breadth and intensity. When do we stop the insanity?
Nelda Bishop, Bountiful