[TheRealThing]

Only you could claim prophecies and the end times from a simple letter from the Sierra Club asking not to have coal destroy the environment. I don't necessarily agree with what they say always, but to somehow go from that to the end of the world seems a bit extreme in my opinion.

Not sure why you also said that are no alternative forms of energy to fossil fuels. You literally said none exist. Maybe one of these days God will convince you it's ok to step foot outside the United States and you will see that many countries have made the shift entirely from fossil fuels or are currently shifting that direction (Iceland, Norway, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, and even China. It probably can't sustain an entire nation that consumes and wastes energy like the US, but it certainly helps and contrary to whatever world you're living in, it does exist.

This will be the only time I look at this thread. I don't argue with self proclaimed prophets. Good luck with everything though.

That's just the point with the willfully ignorant now, is it not? To advance your argument, one must assume for starters that the use of coal, (especially given the advances in scrubber technologies) would in any way "destroy the environment." Which assumption BTW, is far more a stretch of logic than any reasonable adherence to the validity of God's Word. Theory only, suggests a correlation between man made global warming and the use of fossil fuels. I prefer to think that only the inferred correlation in that case, is the thing which is man made.

Admittedly I don't know you. Still, I would bet dollars to doughnuts that I've seen far more of this world than you have. But by way of example, take your list of countries :eyeroll: which have "shifted entirely" from fossil fuels to renewable energy. I got one word for you, hydroelectricity. A form of electrical generation which on the grand scale, was pioneered in the US BTW. In fact, hydropower plants were in wide use here in the US as early as the late 1800's. And I concede to the use of wind farms and solar energy. But in Costa Rica for example, if not for an uncharacteristically large amount of rainfall, they would not have been able to rely completely on hydro power for the 75 day record everybody is all gaga about. Six months ago they were in a severe drought and were using fossil fuels to generate electricity. Though the Chicken Little Club likes to lean heavily on hydro-electrical power to justify their stance, hydro is hardly the stuff of modern science. And the cost to use existing renewable energy forms is astronomic. It costs a whopping 33 dollars to produce a gallon of gasoline from an algae farm. While wind power is at least as expensive as coal.

Wind farms, solar, hydro, geothermal, biofuels etc. reportedly account for only 17% of the energy used in the EU. And China doesn't care if it snows straight up. Some small advances have been made in renewable energy but if you take the contribution of hydro out of the equation, the percentage is a nearly invisible 2%. That was my point. But thanks for demonstrating a predictable willingness to be deceived.

As to the end of the world. Everybody has within them the innate foreboding of what is shortly to come. Just as they have within them, the undeniable witness of the existence of God the Creator. Romans 1:18-20 (KJV)
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

The Lord has revealed Himself to every man through His creation. That is not to say that many will not deny that anyway, but again, I will take His Word on that. Some things are hard to hear. Nobody wants to hear their doctor tell them they need open heart surgery, but to ignore that truth would mean certain death. Same thing with the affairs of men, eternal life and how it is acquired. Therefore, I hope that God will convince you that knowing the details of man's progression through time as outlined in the Bible, and as I occasionally like to point out on here, is not a bad thing.