No I think the question is not "yes", but you looked this week at G20 Summit, and what do you hear in America about policy recommendation, the prudent approach towards environmental stewardship from reporters or leaders? Did you hear the story about how each family can learn to grow more produce and consume less plastics? There is another issue, through the media, people are being intimidated, distracted, and excused from wantonness and excessive consumer habits, ever since George Bush Jr. sorry told Americans that the best thing to help America after 9 11 is "to shop". This is a wing of American Policy, "to suppress" and "assuage" the public from what Its Corporations are doing to Urantia.

Right I cannot even express this opinion because I am being suppressed by Bradley. The G20 Summit was purposed to call World Leaders to discuss Climate Change. That is what such a meeting should be about. Even Kim Un, a representative from a state forced to sustain itself via its own means, being distracted and misled by "demand for Aide", the false and wasteful economic stimulus packages. How do we "support the economy" is very important; we cannot keep asking for handouts from China and Africa, and I give far more creedance to "handymen" who work with the salvaged items that others throw away, than you Brother Bradley.

Still, I would like to pick up the paper to read the news about how landloss is being solved, how more fruit per acre is being achieved, and have journalists translate those exact methods to subscribers. How are the ploughshares and pruning hooks distributed into the hands of young students. But did I hear anything about that this week? Not from any papers or television broadcasts, no Sir.

Really, even if people "say they want to help the planet", but there is so much stagnance, so much media suggestion that goes against the grain of human responsibilities. Even if you fed up, and do not allow yourself to keep buying imported food from Nebraska and other States, but you are probably too afraid to make the real and lasting changes to your own estate and your own environment.

People say that climate change is not real that there is no singular event that affirms its actuality of scientific fact. But to me, the rains that caused the Flood of Cedar Rapids IO June 2008, is significant enough of itself, and well if you do not accept the Paradise (CA) Fire, in itself having a measurable impact, a "gamechanger" for the flow of the Jetstream, well then you have been imprinted psychologically with fearful imagery and not brave enough yet to employ the better methods of maintenance and preservation, as a settler in the Age of Life, that real farmers try to share with the community but are being suppressed, or but their better methods are not properly identified and remain unnoticed by society.

Back to the topic....

Sounds like every reader here agrees that environmental stewardship is keenly important. And all or most agree that poor stewardship and social priorities since industrialization have resulted in some harsh realities...in addition to and regardless of any climate change. Otherwise we quibble over some side issues like causes and effects and solutions.

But the answer to the original question remains an unequivocal "Yes!"

That is a good generalization of the thread. The only other thing I'd add in terms of disagreements is the sense of urgency or exactly how high a priority it should be.

But that's correct, it's a clear yes.

It is written in the Revelation that we are currently experiencing an era in which the control of natural forces is making its appearance leading to "final subduing of the planet". Reference:

52:3.6 The result of the gift of the Adamic life plasm to the mortal races is an immediate upstepping of intellectual capacity and an acceleration of spiritual progress. There is usually some physical improvement also. On an average world the post-Adamic dispensation is an age of great invention, energy control, and mechanical development. This is the era of the appearance of multiform manufacture and the control of natural forces; it is the golden age of exploration and the final subduing of the planet. Much of the material progress of a world occurs during this time of the inauguration of the development of the physical sciences, just such an epoch as Urantia is now experiencing. Your world is a full dispensation and more behind the average planetary schedule.

118:10.14 Man's increasing control—the gradual accumulation of the knowledge of the laws of the material world, the purposes of spiritual existence, and the possibilities of the philosophic co- ordination of these two realities. Man, the savage, was helpless before the onslaughts of natural forces, was slavish before the cruel mastery of his own inner fears. Semicivilized man is beginning to unlock the storehouse of the secrets of the natural realms, and his science is slowly but effectively destroying his superstitions while at the same time providing a new and enlarged factual basis for the comprehension of the meanings of philosophy and the values of true spiritual experience. Man, the civilized, will someday achieve relative mastery of the physical forces of his planet; the love of God in his heart will be effectively outpoured as love for his fellow men, while the values of human existence will be nearing the limits of mortal capacity.

But katroof, if we are a full dispensation behind other worlds, well this is a greater setback when it comes to motivating nations to generate their own food and resources, especially to increase the amount of arable mass of each land. That is the era we must face. But the standards of consumerism do not promote environmentalism, until one attempts to produce, to have one's community produce, those goods which are used most commonly. Why import textiles, when cotton can be grown and uniforms knitted in your home state. Bradley says that environmental goals could unite humanity in a common cause, but I say should. Jay Baldwin is not around to explain it anymore, but he had a good long run and we need to remember the emphasis he placed on agroforestry. Representatives should know better to repair floodwalls, than to promote peace without stewardship of the land. You won't notice it if the quality of gasoline only declines 1% with synthetic additives every year. When people in their apartments are looking at the space that they need, this is a question of how you maximize the light distribution in your living spaces and greenhouses, and battery storage of the sunlight that you collect. But it comes down to financial issues, and well if you see that tariffs increasing against nations that lead the charge towards conservative values, you have to push your own nation to produce the components we will miss out on. Ultimately tariffs do not teach nations to produce for themselves, and people must be encouraged to take back the local perennials that were established during the beginning of the colonial era. That is where good horticulture helped mankind to prosper, and there are not too much better species than that nowadays. Civilization is always forged in miniature: you have to look at your children as the beginning of a new civilization, and hope to God that they do better than we have so far.

The topic is "Is There Environmentalism in The Urantia Book?"

Bringing in environmentalism (or lack of) in the G20 meetings is off the topic.

But katroof, if we are a full dispensation behind other worlds, well this is a greater setback when it comes to motivating nations to generate their own food and resources, especially to increase the amount of arable mass of each land. That is the era we must face.