Planet in Distress

What a fascinating time to be alive. Right in front of us, the earth and human society are as one in accelerating decay and on a terminal trajectory while we as a society are doing pretty much…. nothing.  At the same time, and of magnitudes of order more importance, some 7.7 billion souls hang in […]

I keep saying the end game has started, by which I mean that the end times spoken of in the Bible have started.  But am I over-stating it?  After all, the Bible paints a very stark picture – there will be a period of epic distress and conflict and suffering (the beginning of sorrows) that […]

The disciples of Jesus posed a fascinating question to him at the very end of His ministry.  Jesus had just finished telling them about the coming destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, and in Matthew 24:3 they responded with a more expansive question: “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be sign […]

Selfishness is an absolutely terrible organizing principle upon which to base any system.  The problem with selfishness as the basis for a system is that the resulting system collapses in on itself; it is the inescapable nature of selfishness that drives all members of a system to be in competition with each other and to […]

The Economist has an excellent article out (paywall) about floods and storms altering the perceptions of Americans toward climate change.  The seesaw of flooding and drought that is increasingly more prevalent in the US and in the world is redefining what “normal” is.  Certainly anyone who is, say, 40, and can remember when our climate did […]

As humans, we live at the top of the planet’s food chain.  We control the earth, bending it to our will, and using advanced agricultural techniques to force a robust harvest of food for our species.  In doing this, we don’t think much about the welfare of the planet’s vast population of insects, birds, or other vertebrates and invertebrates.   […]

Have you ever wondered how some things in prophecy could possibly be fulfilled? What chain of events would be required to take us from where we are now to where we are prophesied to be? Take some of the scenes painted in Matthew 24 and Luke 21, for instance. Taken together they paint a picture […]

More than once I have written about an impending production of a TV series featuring the Planet In Distress message and more then once I have experienced the chagrin and frustration of that effort being confounded.  This was particularly true when readers of this blog helped financially support the attempt to put this message on […]

This post is about the big things.  The Big Framework.  The Big Trends.  The Big Problems that are developing all over the world and why they are unstoppable.  Lets start with the Big Framework. The earth was created in perfection.  Every earth system (atmospheric, oceanic, climate, etc.) intermeshed perfectly with the others.  Life did not […]

How much do bees cost human society?  It is an important question.  Bees provide a profound service to humans – they pollinate flowers and therefore are directly responsible for a significant amount of food production around the world.  While performing this service, they also produce honey, a very significant benefit to humans.  Wild bees cost […]