Greenland Ice Sheet Melting At Record Rate

amfrancism, i think i get what you're saying. unfortunately most religious folks think they know what God is telling them cause they read it in a book. Those same people engage in practices that are detrimental to the Earth. As soon as religious folks get their heads out of the books and take a look around at God's creation, Earth, they will indeed receive the loud and clear message that God has been trying to tell them, and they will know how to act accordingly.

okay AMFRANCISM
I respect your beliefs....
why wouldn't i?
But What I don't think you understand, is that, THANK GOD, not everyone on this planet believes what you do.
There are almost SEVEN BILLION....let me type it again....SEVEN BILLION people on this place!!
There are SO MANY belief systems out side of yours that make so much more sense and are so much more balanced!!!
If The world worked the way you did....well, THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY FUN!!
Science and Theology working together as one will not work. Why you might ask??
To put it simply, RELIGION does not allow for science to explain how God works. Which to me is SOOOOOO DUMB! because God is AMAZINGLY AND BEAUTIFULLY SCIENTIFIC!!!! But religion has distorted God's scientific work into something that it shouldn't be. And that is sad to me. I'm done.

I firmly believe that our daily duty has to be precisely what God the Father Almighty Creator of heaven and earth wants us to do. Doing other things may be rewarding in the short term but may lead to detrimental situations in future.

Engineering as an extension of Science has to be understood as an extension of theology in order to solve the various problems that we face on this planet and in the atmosphere and to build optimally like an extension where we live,of the real biblical divine paradise, to the extent to which we can.

This didn't happen overnight. It took many years of industrialization (world wide) to create this damage. The people creating this damage knew it wasn't good (even if they did not know all the effects) but making money became more important. Now you wonder why we don't feel more? Maybe because we weren't the ones actually making the decision to dump chemicals in the water systems? Maybe because there are so many stories of things going bad we have become desensitized? I don't think we need to worry about feeling bad-we just need to do our part..recycle when possible and hope that the people who studied in the enviroment have good action plans to correct this. If you feel a calling to make a difference in this area-pursue it. As for me, if I went to school to become a science expert in this field and hopefully had ideas to implement to make a difference the ice will have melted--I can only do so much.

ouch.

Jan, there are lots of people feeling exactly what you described. Maybe the tragedy is that there are not enough people feeling it. or not the right people. or who knows.

It would be a shame to lose such a fruitful and abundant ecosystem, and such an advanced and fascinating species as Humans. But if Earth finds it necessary, so be it.

We will become a memory, had by no one.