What should we do about the environment?
Recently my bible study class has been running through a book called Culture Shock by Chip Ingram. We ran across a section talking about the church and the environment. It is actually shocking what we have done to the environment through our negligence, wastefulness, and dependence on fossil fuels. Global warming leading to increased temperatures, severe weather patterns, increased rate of animal extinction, among other tragedies. Massive piles of garbage floating in the oceans, with an island cumulatively larger than smaller countries floating in the Pacific! Strip mining and deforestation, leading to the destruction of habitats, and further feeding of the global warming problem. What leads to these problems? What are we as Christians supposed to do to slow, stop, and maybe even reverse these problems? I hope to write a quick blurb over what has led to this point, what the Bible says about what we should think/do about the environment, and what we can do about our pre