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Why Is There Environmental
Degradation?
Our God-given, stewardly talents have often been
warped from their intended purpose: that we know,
name, keep and delight in God's creatures; that
we nourish civilization in love, creativity and
obedience to God; and that we offer creation and
civilization back in praise to the Creator. We
have ignored our creaturely limits and have used
the earth with greed, rather than care. The earthly
result of human sin has been a perverted stewardship,
a patchwork of garden and wasteland in which the
waste is increasing. "There is no faithfulness,
no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land...Because
of this the land mourns, and all who live in it
waste away" (Hosea 4:1,3). Thus, one consequence
of our misuse of the earth is an unjust denial
of God's created bounty to other human beings,
both now and in the future. (“An
Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation”)
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