EPA Head Scott Pruitt: God Gave Us This Planet, So We Can Destroy It

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EPA Head Scott Pruitt: God Gave Us This Planet, So We Can Destroy It
February 23, 2018 by Hemant Mehta

We already know that Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is a climate denier. He doesn’t care what scientists have to say about the very issues he oversees. That’s why it won’t surprise you that he’s completely behind the push for coal and oil, despite the harm extracting those resources.

What is surprising, maybe, is the reason he’s giving for doing that.

It has nothing to do with science. Instead, he says drilling for oil and mining coal is what God wants us to do. He said as much during an interview with (you guessed it) the Christian Broadcasting Network.

“The ‘environmental left’ tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences and be about prohibition,” Pruitt said. “That’s wrongheaded and I think it’s counter to what we should be about.”

Pruitt believes God commands us to take care of the environment and that also means to use what He has provided. “The biblical world view with respect to these issues is that we have a responsibility to manage and cultivate, harvest the natural resources that we’ve been blessed with to truly bless our fellow mankind.”

In other words, God gave us this planet, so Scott Pruitt thinks we can destroy it. It’s what Jesus wanted.