After wandering through the wilderness for forty years, the Israelites approached the Promised Land in Leviticus, Chapter 26 and God’s promises include amble rainfall, abundant crops and evil or savage beasts leaving the land. But God also warns that if you are sinful and break my commandments the beasts will return. It seems that they were created for a distinct purpose.
The Rewilding Institute website advocates continental-scale conservation in North America of gray wolves, mountain lions, jaguar, lynx, grizzly bear, polar bear, wolverine, and fisher. But the Action BioScience website takes it a step further and advocates the “…idea of rewilding from a deep time perspective … going back to a time before the first humans began to migrate to the Americas…” which would include lions and camels. A 2005 editorial in Nature, the scientific journal, urges the reintroduction of elephants and cheetahs into protected areas of the Great Plains.
The fundamental differences between these points of view, between Leviticus and what passes for science, reveals a chasm in American society far greater than the upheaval of Obamacare or the scandal of the day. Many say that the new world order overthrows the existing faiths for a new earth religion. And that Common Core, which includes our local schools, and Agenda 21, idealized in our proposed General Plan, help bring this into reality.
I claim no special knowledge of God’s plan nor do I condemn many environmental efforts. But as I ponder the implications and possibilities discussed above I feel an unnerving fear contemplating what’s unfolding around me.
Copyright 2014, Mark L. Bennett
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