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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Many environmentalists teach this, but I disagree. I don't think the farmer in Kurdistan burning dung is a concern. I think that cities are the concern. If Shanghai decided to generate electricity by burning wood that would be a huge concern, but if you own a couple of acres of land and want to gather the firewood and burn it each winter, that to me is something the Earth can handle.
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The earth can handle everything. Virtually everything goes back to the earth over time.
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Originally Posted by ZNP
I think we should be good stewards.
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I agree.
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Originally Posted by ZNP
We were assigned the responsibility of taking care of the Earth.
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The problem is more like that we took responsibility to care for the earth. If we hadn't taken ourselves out of the food chain some 10,000 years ago, the population of human species would have remained balanced like all the rest of the species.
You'll like this one bro ZNP. If man had live only by his animal instincts, like all the rest of the critters, the population would have remained balanced. But something happened. We developed self consciousness and intelligence -- symbolized by the tree of knowledge of good and evil -- and took control, told God to screw off, that we'd no longer trust in His providing for sustenance, and would "TAKE" it away from Him. That was the birth of Totalitarian Agriculture. More food, more population. That's an evolutionary principle, that all the rest of the species live by.
Maybe that's why God rejected Cain's offering ... God didn't like Totalitarian Agriculture, as the Cains' "fruit of the ground" symbolism may represent (Gen 4:3).
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Originally Posted by ZNP
It is our responsibility. If we fail it is essentially insignificant. The Earth has had 5 extinctions in the last 500 million years, this will be the 6th. That only refers to the last 500 million years, the Earth is 4.6 billion years. So in the grand scheme of things on Earth this would merely make the top 10. However, there are 8 planets in our solar system, very arrogant to think that they don't matter. Finally, from the grand prospective the Sun would have to be far more important than any planet. So as far as our solar system is concerned this climate change barely registers as an important event. Still there are a billion stars in our galaxy, so from the galaxies perspective it is completely insignificant.
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Amen brother.
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