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The title of this article might better be Is God Truly Dead? To begin with, the United States has no environmental standards. The United States government has been on an environmental killing spree for two hundred years and more. They only act on environmental matters when they are busted publicly. Even then, they deny to the best of their ability, using the court system to back them if possible, changing the law if necessary. United States politicians traditionally take payoffs to look the other way when it comes to environmental matters.

Following is a short list of environmental catastrophes for which the United States can claim responsibility.
At Burning Mountain in Garfield County, Colorado, a coal seam has been burning for over 100 years inside the mountain. In 1978 at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York, 20,000 tons of toxic chemicals were burned in the 1940s and 1950s, resulting in extreme levels of cancer, birth defects, and miscarriages. Water sources for years have been deliberately poisoned by dumping industrial waste into them. There have been numerous mining disasters and deforestation efforts, because anything that can be sold will be sold, at any cost. I'm sure there are many more incidents, inside and outside the country, that have escaped public knowledge and responsibility. Cleanups only occur when the public is outraged.

This is the free enterprise system in action. It literally means free to make money by any means possible, no matter what it takes or what is destroyed in the process. Free enterprise means no responsibility. It stands to reason then that another authority must be looked to for standards. And if God keeps looking the other way as He has been for so many years, then this world is in serious trouble.

The United States is no better at protecting indigenous peoples. They are responsible for the genocide of numerous tribes on United States soil. Forced segregation was enacted, sending Native Peoples to reservations in desert country with no water supply and little food.
The plains buffalo were slaughtered to the point of extinction in a deliberate state sponsored attempt to starve Native Peoples. Disease was deliberately introduced in the form of smallpox blankets passed out as helpful gifts. Children were forcibly separated from their families and taken so far away to Indian schools that there was no possibility of them running away. There they were forcibly taught that Native ways, languages, and culture are wrong. They were

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