I didn't know

Post full of my ignorance, sadly ignorant in fact...

I over heard my husband in a conversation the other day say that the world is going to be out of oil in the next 100 years.  It went in one ear and out the other at the moment but the more I thought about 100 years, I realized that could be in our daughter's lifetime and for sure in our grand children's lifetime.  I asked him later that evening if what I over heard was correct and he said it was.  I then proceeded to ask what the plan was for the world to respond to this information.  I asked who was writing the plan.  The UN? The World Bank?  Maybe another source that I didn't know about?  He shared that nobody was addressing the issue.  Well, that there are a lot of people that would like to address the issue, but that the largest maker of money in the world right now is oil and the machine of people that represent these companies are only interested in squeezing every last profitable penny out of their trade.

So I asked if the car companies were getting really good at electrical designs.  He asked if I knew where electricity came from.  Clearly not.  I said something extremely clever like, Hoover Dam and Bakersfield windmills.

That conversation continued on, and by conversation I mean that he did all the talking and I just sat on the couch and realized I have been drinking the kool-aid of ignorance that all "those" people want me to be drinking.  If there is some grand plan out there for most of us to not know what is happening, it's working.

Fast forward to a couple days later at Super Bowl Sunday, I was talking to my sister in law about of all of this and she started talking to me about plastic water bottles.  The plastic that holds the water we buy for a dollar or more, is a by-product of the refining process of oil.  All plastic, every single thing that is plastic, is made from a by-product of the oil processing.  So, that will be gone too, in 100 years.  Think about that.  Just stop, look around where you are sitting right now, and take in all that is plastic.  Very nearly everything.  I don't know what you are thinking, but this is mind blowing to me.  The world as we know it, in so much of the world as we know it here, in the states, here in CA, here in orange county, a rather small dot on the globe, I know, nevertheless, this world that I live in will not look anything like it does 150 years from today.  Anyhow, she told me to watch Tapped to know more about it.  I did, I went home after the game and watched it, which I encourage you to do as well.

And that has been what I have been spending brain energy on this last week or so.  Wondering what God thinks about the human condition, from excess to scarcity, and everything in between.

Genesis is not unclear about how we are to lovingly care for this magnificent place.  Think about your part in that.  I only ask that you think about it and do only what you can do.  Influence those around you in truth and grace.  Be the change.

Be. The. Change. 


BE.

THE.

CHANGE.

Pray about everything else.