Christmas 2018: Climate Change Carols!

                Sadly, the devolution of Christian churches continues apace. Some in Australia have teamed up to fight climate change by singing rewritten carols this Christmas season. The Pitt Street Uniting Church, for example, can be seen and—unfortunately—heard singing their revised version of “Joy to the World” online:

                Cool down the world, the time has come, for targets tight and fair

                Let petrol, oil, and coal, prepare to go

                Let’s fund renewables

                Let’s fund renewables

                Let’s fund, let’s fund renewables

               

   The birth of Christ and eternal life vs. funding renewables…pretty much on par. Joy to the world, wind power is here!

   Except that investing in “green” energy is costing cities, states and taxpayers lots of money. Take Georgetown, Texas, for instance, a city ironically lauded in Al Gore’s movie “Inconvenient Truth.” An attempt to utilize wind and solar power to supply this small town with all its energy needs ended up costing the burg nearly $7 million. But I digress.

  PSUC’s own website describes its congregation as a “progressive faith community of justice-seeking friends,” while something called the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC? They’re gathering up the consonants two by two, apparently) assembled a songbook called “Carols Against Coal.” This new songbook is perhaps not as devout as traditional ones, as, in place of “O Come All Ye Faithful,” “Away in a Manger” and “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” it features “O Come All Ye Miners,” “Away in a Coal Mine” and “Hush! Our Solar Panels Sit.” There is also, apparently, a cutesy climate change version of “Silent Night.” I didn’t have the stomach to listen to or read the lyrics to that one.

  Said the leftists to the GOP
  Do you see what we see?
  Reaching towards the sky, GOP
  Do you see what we see?
  A plant, a plant
  Smoking in plain sight!
  With a stack that’s tall and a blight
  With a stack that’s tall and a blight

  Said the Democrats to the country rubes
  Do you fear what we fear?
  (Do you fear what we fear)?
  Coming by-and-by country rubes
  Do you fear what we fear?
  (Do you fear what we fear)?
  The heat, the heat!
  Warming up the seas
  Bringing us flooding and disease
  Bringing us flooding and disease

  Said the Democrats to conservatives
  You don’t know what we know

  (You don’t know what we know)

  Clinging to your God and your guns
  You don’t know what we know
  (You don’t know what we know)
  It’s mild, It’s mild!
  It’s nowhere near as cold
  You must quit all mining when told
  You must quit all mining when told