Jon Warren Lentz, Inc

Oceans of issues, and this is one not to miss out on. As though getting BP’d weren’t enough, Costco is killing our oceans, too. http://tiny.cc/jfvm0

Nationwide, this weekend, more than a hundred thousand people gathered in about 900 locations to join “Hands Across the Sand” to protect our beaches - indeed, our future generations - from offshore oil drilling. Here’s a report:

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-06-28-hands-across-the-sand-protests-slideshow/

Said Bill, attending the Carlsbad event, “What a big disappointment! There were more people crossing the street on a single green light.”

We attended Ponto, where the response was disappointing. People on the beach to swim and run (what I usually go to Ponto for! - not to protest . . .) were like deer in the headlights when asked to join a line of people holding hands for a moment to keep oil off their beach.

We have an education and awareness problem that is complicated by a sense of entitlement that may not be in alignment with physics. We are puny compared to the power of nature and the forces of our planet.

On the other hand, 100 people, each showing up at their local beach, adds up in a global moment, like grains of sand adding up to a movement. There is always hope.

Today is the day to link up with others, nationally, peacefully showing your opposition to “business as usual” ruination of the planet. Time for humans to evolve.

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Is it nonsensical to call upon creationists to evolve?

No.

Even if you give God righteous credit for creation, for making this world in 6 days and then resting, you can still acknowledge that humans have an opportunity to mature beyond war and greed and killing the planet. Such a maturity could be called an “evolutionary” change for humans. Indeed, it just might be what God provides for our survival, to bring a living heaven to earth.