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Real Reasons to Care about the Environment

Many of us see and hear about caring for the environment, please recycle, do not litter, watch your water usage, and so on. Nowadays, it seems that most people have a semblance of concern for nature and the environment as a whole, but it wasn't so long ago that stupid and greedy people were forced to stop polluting through legislation and fines. Of course, there are those who have evolutionary and socialist viewpoints upon which they base their interest for the environment. Some are muy loco en la cabeza, seeing humans as a plague on Earth and want to see us killed off!

Tinker Falls New York a part of God's creation
Credit: Wikimedia Commons / javajoe6 / CC BY-SA 3.0
We can agree with evolutionists that this planet is all we have, and we'd best be taking care of it. But the motivation of Christians is mighty different. We are created in God's image (Genesis 1:27), and Earth was created to be inhabited (Isaiah 45:18). Earth was not created for us to act like polecats and trash the place. After all, it was not only created to remind us of our Creator (Romans 1:18-23), we have a job to do: we're stewards of creation. Go back to Genesis and see that God began with putting Adam in the Garden to work it (Genesis 2:15).
Before knowing Christ, my affections had revolved around earth’s beauty and her creatures. I held two views. First, I was biocentric. Because of my background in biology, I saw how all organisms were interrelated. . .

Second, I was also an ecocentrist. I focused on the interconnectedness of nature and how our survival depends on being in harmony with nature. . . I “knew” that, if nothing else, spaceship earth was all there was, and we must do all in our power to save her.

As my relationship with the Creator grew, I realized that my belief in the natural world as the source of all value was wrong and a form of idolatry. So I rejected both views.
You can read the entire narrative in context (or listen to the free audio version), and get some interesting information on creation care perspectives, by clicking on "Caring About Creation for the Right Reasons".