Every day the news is devastating, depressing and seemingly hopeless. Some turn off the TV news altogether, hoping that ignoring the news will make them feel better. But we are called to be in the world, and it is our duty to leave the world a better place than we found it. To do that we must know what is happening. One way is to follow the Apostle Paul’s advice in Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” (NIV). Then we find that there is much good happening for which to be thankful..
Here are a few examples: The Covid pandemic is finally diminishing, and we have vaccines and effective treatments avilable. HydroxyChloroQuine together with Zinc and maybe Azithromycine is a cure if taken early in more than 60% of the cases. It is even effective in the later stage of the sicness if taken in much larger doses. Ivermectine plus Zinc is even more effective, over 80% success rate if taken early. These are proven facts, but the media is still bound to promote vaccines as the only solution. Thinking positively, vaccines are good for people over 50, under 50 you are better off with either HCQ or Ivermactine, taken in proper doses of course. An overdose of Tylenol can destroy your kidneys and even cause death, yet it is safe and effective in proper doses. The point of all this is that we have learnt so much during this pandemic for which we should be thankful,.. and the proper treatments should be promoted.
I could go on with climate change. Yes, there is climate change, and this is on balance good. When you want hothouses to yield more, you increase the CO2 level, typically double it. This leads to increased yields. Since CO2 levels have increased, we can now feed 2 billion more people than before, and have fewer people starving. The temperatures in the tropics are not increasing, the control mechanism is clouds, they cool by day and warm by night. The control is so good that just one percent change in cloud cover means more than all the increase in the CO2 levels. One place where God’s temperature control doesn’t work perfectly is in deserts. With no clouds, no temperature control. So w must do what we can to prevent more areas from becoming a desert. One way is to plant more trees. This is especially important to lower temperatures in urban areas with all their roads, houses and parking lots.
My dream is to see built a transcontinental aqueduct from the Mississippi river to the Colorado River. It would save the southwest from becoming a desert, save Lake Mead, double the irrigation in the Imperial Valley and Mexico, water the people of Arizona and New Mexico and provide much needed hydroelectric power storage for the state of Texas. At the moment Texas has none, but they have a lot of wind power and no way to store the energy to use when the wind is not blowing. Arizona and New Mexico would like to have solar power, but they do not have the water to provide hydroelectric power storage. The aqueduct will provide the water for the hydroelectric power storage as the water flows down from the highlands. All it takes is twenty-three Liquid Fluor Thorium nuclear Reactors of 500 Megawatt capacity each to power the aqueduct, so it is very doable. Congress is now disussing an infrastructure bill. If there wver was a project worth their consideration this would be it!
Len Bilén's blog, a blog about faith, politics and the environment. 
Aloha… I’m Brad from Honolulu; Uber driver & lover of the American southwest. I recently conceived of a transcontinental aqueduct from Lake Michigan to Lake Powell, & wanted to find out what others online were saying about it. I found your materials to be the most thought-out. Have you sent your aqueduct materials to the white house, Dept. of the Interior or others? Anything I can do to help? I think this is a project that must be undertaken now. With thanks, Brad
Thank you for your comment. Like you, I started to see if the Great lakes to Lake Powell was feasible, but ended up suggesting transporting water up the Platte river to solve the Denver area’s water supply problem. Right now they are taking one half percent of the Colorado river under the continental divide through the Moffat tunnel. This was a start. The reason I really wanted to see if it was feasible to do such a large project as the Transcontinental aqueduct was threefold. Save Lake Mead and Arizona, triple the hydroelectric power storage so we can build solar panels and windmills without destroying the power grid when the wind does,t blow and the sun doesn’t shine, and finally build an assembly line production facility of small LFTR reactors at a competitive price to solve all our electric power problems until fusion power is commercially feasible. This is a large undertaking and I certainly would welcome all help to see it come to fruition, including constructive criticism. As to cost, I may have overestimated the cost of eminent domain land acquisition, so the total cost is probably lower than estimated.