Ozwitness

Research just released shows that the hearts of even the very young city dwellers contains billions of toxic air pollution particles. These iron-rich particles, produced by vehicles and industry, could be the cause of the long-established link between air pollution and heart disease.

Another  recent report found the same nano-particles in human brains associated with Alzheimers-like damage, indicating that air pollution damages every organ and cell in the body, even in the placentas of women who had given birth.

Although it is suggested that particle emissions from vehicles can be reduced, this would be merely tinkering around the edges of the problem, which will feed into reducing life expectancy figures. What would be required to remove the problem altogether is an unimaginable change in both worldwide industry and transport. This is not going to happen in the present circumstances, but there is good news.

A change is coming, when the whole earth and its systems, its climate, geography, industry, transport, religions and  even the way the nations are governed, will totally change for the better. It will occur under the rule  of the  returned Jesus Christ who will have both the ability and the support needed to enable the change to be successful worldwide, achieving peace, prosperity and happiness for all mankind, but it will not be industry and technology based.

It will be an agrarian society, based upon farming, the family, and human and animal involvement rather than huge machines and computers. The whole emphasis will be upon human relationships and ecology, rather than wealth and material possessions, and and the result will be that pollution of all kinds will be removed !

Isaiah 30:23-25,  ‘He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows. The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel. In the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill.’

Many of us are wary of handing over our lives to another person, especially in a situation where there is no escape if things go wrong, so when we learn of increased risks in modern air transport we are naturally concerned, and recently there have been too many crashes with enormous loss of life.

Lion Air Flight 610 plunged into the sea off Indonesia because the pilot “lost (the) fight with his software,” Canadian Transport minister Marc Garneau chillingly told a Wednesday press conference announcing the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX 8.

There was nothing wrong with the basic mechanics of the aircraft: Its engines, wings and control surfaces are all believed to be working fine. Rather, the passenger jet may have killed 346 people for the terrifyingly modern reason that human pilots were unable to override a malfunctioning computer.

The cause of the Lion Air crash — and the suspected cause of the recent downing of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 — is a little-known piece of software known as MCAS, the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System.

The 737 MAX 8 has heavier and more fuel-efficient engines than prior editions of the 737, a change which causes the aircraft to pitch upwards ever-so-slightly after takeoff.

Rather than instructing airlines to warn their pilots of this quirk, Boeing simply equipped the MAX 8 with MCAS, a program that would automatically tilt the nose downwards to compensate.

Unaware of this automatic system, which was interfering with normal flight because of erroneous information, the pilots fought the computer until the tragic end.

We have always been led to believe that the pilot can, in emergency take over the manual flying of the airplane, but often we tend to believe that our technology cannot be wrong .  In the final analysis though, the man is to be trusted more than the machine, and pilots should be trained to accept  that responsibility and be provided with a simple switch which places the entire control of the plane back into their hands.

Until this is done and that doing made public, some of us will be doing as little flying as possible!

‘For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways so that the banished one may not remain estranged from Him.’  2 Samuel 14:14.