Okay, still enraged.

A while ago (i have no idea if we're talking a few years, or a couple of decades) one of my current lecturers discovered a new species of fish. It lives only in a small group of wet lands in a certain part of the country, and no where else. In the last two or three years, two of the main areas they live in have "gone up in flames" as he puts it. I don't know what that actually means, did they get set on fire?

Now, the local council want to run the sewage treatment system for the region right through the remaining habitat of this unique little fishy. Pisses me right off!

Why is it that money is more important than our biodiversity???


Okay, to the point...

I'm not a very scholarly person, I certainly don't spend as much of my time thinking godly thoughts as I probably ought to... but I have been a pondering...

God made man (and woman) to be lord over the earth and all the varying critters. Which, I would take to be, we were made to look after the earth and all the varying critters.

I mean, if you think about he servants who were given talents, and what each of them did with them.... there's the guy who looked after his masters money and grew the investment, and there's a guy who buried it the ground and did nothing with it, just gave it back when his master returned. We hear this parable and we think, "nah, I don't want to be that second (or actually third) guy!" We think we want to make sure to look after, and grow, the things that God had given us. Right?

Hasn't He given us a planet??? Hasn't He given us a variety of animals beyond what we have so far been able to discover?

So, God gives us a planet and a bunch of animals, which servant are we? We aren't even the guy who did nothing with what he was given. We are the guy who sets his masters house of fire, and lets his sheep get out.


So why is it, that more Christians aren't concerned with saving the environment; petitioning against the cutting down of rain forests for palm oil production, and protecting marine habitat, saving endangered species? Do we just think God doesn't care? Somehow I doubt he would have gone to the trouble of making the natural world so "unnecessarily beautiful" if all he wanted to look down on was concrete.