Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Why should people exercise or eat better or cut back on caffeine consumption.

And the not so distant past, the common answer was simple and compelling.

Well, it's good for them.

Today, however, according to the United Nations, the National Library of Medicine,

and the New York Post,

one of the main reasons to do these things

is to fight off climate change.

In fact, you can Google virtually any good habit,

along with the words climate change,

and the results are plentiful.

Apparently, at least according to the mainstream pressing governmental agencies,

the best way to sell behavior policies or technology is not to doubt the obvious actual benefits for individuals, but rather some

tenuous highly theoretical way that it might, if looked at in the right light and all the stars

align, possibly could help cool the planet.

Now this is a telltale sign that whatever the scientific merits of man-made climate

change may be, it has become a religious system for many, complete with genuflecting indulgences and ritual

and vacations.

In fact, climate change was recently offered as a reason to engage in an actual religious

practice, one that goes back thousands of years and is beneficial, even essential to human well-being.

In the Washington Post recently, advice columnist Michael Corrin argued that one way to fight climate change is to take a weekly day of rest.

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