Good Thursday Morning!
1. Question – Would the best world to the
environmentalists be one in which humans make the least
impact?
2. Thought – With responsibility comes blessing.
Mankind is permitted and encouraged to use the
earth’s resources for God-honoring dominion. This
biblical view stands at odd with much of modern
environmentalism, which is motivated by a concern to
protect the natural environment, especially from harmful
human activity. A Christian desires to protect the
creation, but contemporary environmentalists often suggest
that mankind is an unnatural and dangerous blight on the
earth. The best world in their minds is one in which
humans make the least impact. This is not a biblical view.
God designed the world for mankind, and He designed its
resources for man’s good and man’s progress.
The emergence of human civilizations that make use of the
earth’s resources is a good thing. (Cultural
Geography by Dennis Bollinger)
“The enemy is not only ‘us’ but
virtually all human activities…What is called
for, then, is a strategy for transforming society so
that the present rapid acceleration of extinction
becomes a deceleration. The transformation must be
universal because it is the everyday activities of
human beings that most threaten other
organisms…Halting the growth of the human
population as rapidly as is humanly possible and
starting a gradual decline to a permanently
sustainable level are obviously essential if the
populations of most other organisms are to have a
chance of persisting.”
(Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the
Disappearance of Species, by Paul and Anne Erlich)
