Promoting Go Green Solutions in such an Extreme Manner is more Harmful than Good

The Earth is our home, so why don’t we take care of it and preserve it? Most people think that they can’t make a difference as just one individual in a world of over 7 billion people, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Anything from being a vegetarian, which highly reduces the amount of water used and byproduct created when farming animals, to carpooling to school helps combat global warming. By convincing my English class that global warming is an important issue that we are facing today and will face in the future, I hope to get them to take their own initiatives to reduce their footprint on our planet Earth.

I believe that as a Christian we should be as concerned, if not more so, than any other concerned non-believers. We as Christians, have been given the truth about God, His creation and His will. When it comes to His creation He is very detailed about His plans in creating the earth for His people and His purpose (HCSB. Genesis 1:26-30). Sadly, many Christians have fallen into the category quoted by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good." Their time here on earth has been fogged by the aspirations of glory. The contributors of this wasted life is ignorance, greed, and selfishness. Furthermore, our environment suffers for the cause. Nonetheless, this is a major topic of conversation

Another problem that we may stumble upon would be relying on other people to be ecologically responsible instead of ourselves. We often believe that there are other people out there in the world who are making a difference and so we passively sit back and do nothing. However, we are all accountable for our own actions. Palmer (2015) is a man who worked around the world with people from every major religion from Daoism to Zoroastrianism. He has witnessed many religious environmental movements emerge and grow. He states that the basis of the environmental

Multiple religious groups in the 1980’s organized anti-nuclear protests which included hundreds of thousands of people. Some of the groups involved in this protest include the Southern Baptist convention and the Episcopal Church. The Evangelical Climate Initiative is another accomplishment of Creation Care. This Initiative was launched in February of 2006 by a group of 85 Christians. This group's main goals are environmental reform and ending global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. This group plans to accomplish these goals through federal legislator, discussions regarding global warming and climate change in church, and media advertisements showing the links between global warming and natural disasters. The president of the National Association of Evangelicals spoke for himself saying, “"There is no doubt about it in my mind that climate change is happening, and there is no doubt about it that it would be wise for us to stop doing the foolish things we're doing that could potentially be causing this. In my mind there is no downside to being cautious.”- Reverend Ted Haggard. While many Christian’s may be under the impression that global warming is a myth created by the government to help them gain more control, Evangelical Environmentalists have used the words in the Bible to prove that he care of God’s creation is

I believe that we need to think of the Earth as a gift and a home. We must take care of our Earth but our personal health must come before Earth’s. Lastly, our decision making should be guided by the Bible and my common sense. Our Earth is truly a gift and it is a good gift from God. Genesis 1:31 states, “God saw all that we made, and it was very good”. We need to change the way that we look at the Earth. Normally if we get a really nice gift we treasure it and do our best to protect it. This is the same mindset that we need to have about our land. Secondly, we do need to recognize that we have dominion over the Earth. God created us to take care of the Earth. In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth and then he created man to be stewards of it. It is important not to get to crazy and do things to harm the Earth but we must also remain healthy. Humans come before the land and they always should. Lastly, when living on Earth we must make good decisions. These decisions should be based on what our teachings tell us and our common sense. It is just common sense that cutting down a tree or throwing a wrapper out the yard will harm the Earth. This semester I have learned so much, and thought deeply about many topics. I know that the Earth is a gift and we are so blessed to have this beautiful creation to live in. The many field trips that we went on made me realize many things about our Earth that I didn’t realize. Specifically the wastewater treatment we went on made me realize how much waste we produce and it makes me feel like we are hurting our Earth. Too often people don’t think about the things that they are doing to our Earth. Psalm 8:6 states, “You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet”. The Bible states many times in context that we are to care for the Earth we have been

We have spent hundreds of years ruining the planet and to be honest most people don’t care. The world that we live in today is more concerned about the best looking car rather than the car that is best for the atmosphere. They don’t take the time to recycle because they don’t care where the materials end up and quite frankly it’s been going on like this for a long time, all the way back to grandparents and great grandparents. If you are raised in a family who doesn’t necessarily care about global warming and what’s happening to the earth then the cycle is going to continue and in the blink of an eye the entire planet will be in shambles. People are losing their farms because of the increase of heat in the northeast. Increased storm surges are affecting the productivity of crops and forests in the southeast region and the list goes on. But even the people who are being affected directly may not be concerned about the bigger issue. One person cannot save an entire planet so even if everyone in our class is blown away by this research and chooses to change their lifestyle in order to help the earth, it still won’t be enough to undo all the damage that has already been

What does it mean to be Stewards of this earth? This question was asked in class and does a good job of describing the situation that many Christians today face. It all depends on our definition of stewardship. I believe that an excellent example of stewardship is the Zuni tribe.

The issue of Deforestation has been high on the global environmental agenda for many years, and remains a serious problem today. In the tropics and many other parts of the world, nations continue to lose the valuable biodiversity, soil and water conservation, and climate regulation that natural forests provide. Christianity can only address this matter by continuing to combine an acceptance of the command to people to ‘multiply and replenish the earth’ (Genesis 1:28) with a balancing injunction to act as stewards of the environment. Charities such as Christian Ecology Link and World Vision work to increase awareness of the current ecological crisis and encourage adherents to live sustainably and make ‘green’ consumption choices.

"Save the Planet," "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle," "Go Green." Quotes like these have become a commonality in today's age. We all are familiar with the large efforts to help preserve the environment. In "Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments," Thomas E. Hill Jr. sums up his essay by stating, "The point is not to insinuate that all anti-environmentalists are defective, but to see that those who value such traits as humility, gratitude, and sensitivity to others have reason to promote the love of nature" (688; par. 4) This excerpt provides the thesis behind Hill's argument. The author found that

Christian voice is correcting them or proclaiming the biblical model of man’s relationship to nature which: is unique and superior to the dominant free-market and environmentalist models. . According to Gardner and Stern (1996), in that place are exclusive approaches that have power to be implemented in companionships search to defend the environment. One like approach may take a closer look at holy and regarding duties beliefs and the effects of these beliefs on the environment. The idea to create values and beliefs in environmental issues are important components of having a safer and enjoyable world for its people and the world they live in. Christian and non-Christian, at hand, must see the environment and the shortcoming of business by reason of a proper conversion to an act or purpose of and preservation of the wealth the planet has to support life. Christians as the Bible originate directing the eye to what has to be published by word force in reference to human natures dependence and bounden duty to the nature and its resources. As Christians we should do what ever it takes to make sure this earth glorify God. If we are careless about science and economics — not caring about how they work and what they describe, creation’s economy will suffer (Christians Research Institute).

Despite many Christians, such as Patriarch Batholomew from the Greek Orthodox church who states that ‘For humans to contaminate the Earth’s waters, its land, its air, and its life, with poisonous substances. These are sins’ in an attempt to encourage prioritising environmental protection, climate skeptic Calvin Beisner states that “the Bible teaches that earth and all its subsystems… are the product of a God who is an infinitely wise designer”, reflecting that his personal interpretation of God’s revelation has led to his understanding of the Earth being intelligently design, so that humankind could not potentially destroy it, consequently leading to him not placing priority on the protection of the environment.

Yet anthropocentrism and environmentalism can coexist according to Christian teachings. God did not make humans to only be stewards of the world, but also to be masters. In Genesis 1:31, God states that all the plants, birds, and beasts are to be food for humans (Clowney & Mosto 42). Therefore the natural world was created to be utilized. After all, humans are considered God’s most precious creation and the majority of Christian teachings revolve around human relations with each other and God. However, biblical texts places intrinsic value on the natural world. God describes what he has created as “good” many times before humans were created in the first chapter of Genesis, and eventually calls his creation “good” one final time after humans were created (Simmons 46). This suggests that the value of the natural world is its use for humanity. However, an instrumentalist view of the Earth is not inherently unethical. God created humans to be capable of reason and have ethical responsibility, which is why Humans are at the top of creation’s hierarchy. This natural world was made to feed and care for humans; humans must care for the natural world so that their resources will not be diminished. Not viewing the environment as valuable simultaneously destroys the value of humans (47). Christianity teaches that caring for one’s self entails caring for the environment. God created the natural world as residence and

We are less receptive to information when it is yelled at us, so it is counterintuitive for me to fill four pages with argumentative blathering. Candidly, I am bored of writing essays. I'm tired of drumming my fingers over computer keys as I search desperately for a string of words that can prolong my prose, and exhausted of the rewrites and rewrite rewrites that accompany classroom assignments. I think my words (and, relevantly, the leaves of paper on which I print them) would be better spent crafting a sort of how-to guide on altering your lifestyle to improve the natural world. It is nice to envision ourselves as "savers of the environment", because everyone likes to feel like a superhero--and I'd like to bridge the gap between preacher and

“The land grieves and all who live in it fritter away; the birds of the air and the beasts of the field and the fish of the sea are dying.” Although this sentence was written over approx 2700 years ago, but it seems that it was written for today’s situation (Rocha, 2015). We are living in a generation where individuals and corporations are enjoying important “economic gain” at the expense of the environment and other people. In Colossians 1:15-20 it was mentioned that there is a hope as Jesus is firstborn of all creation. And everything is either created by him or for him. As per this sentence, God’s mission involves all of creations (human, earth, animals etc) in “redemptive work”. As per Colossians 1, God builds the healthier communities,

The Earth is a dynamic, constantly changing environment in which the hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere all interact. When one changes slightly the change is then felt through out the spheres. Humans need to understand that the change they cause can have a potential for a disastrous affect on the environment. From injecting the atmosphere with greenhouse gas, or deforestation, all the unnatural things done to the environment will have an unnatural affect that will have to be dealt with. We as humans have a moral responsibility to reduce global warming gasses by changing our modes of transportation, to stop deforestation, and increase government funding into research to inhibit global warming for