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packman

(16,296 posts)
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 11:23 AM Oct 2015

Stewards of the earth?

Last edited Tue Oct 13, 2015, 12:19 PM - Edit history (1)

I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce.
But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable - Jeremiah 2-7


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Stewards of the earth? (Original Post) packman Oct 2015 OP
It's more like sewers of the earth. mindem Oct 2015 #1
This is but one reason thta 2naSalit Oct 2015 #2
Well we're the self appointed stewards of the earth The2ndWheel Oct 2015 #3
Doesn't stop us 2naSalit Oct 2015 #4
The record of our stewardship is strewn all around us. GliderGuider Oct 2015 #5

The2ndWheel

(7,947 posts)
3. Well we're the self appointed stewards of the earth
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 01:10 PM
Oct 2015

Because it sounds good and makes us feel better. Not because we actually can be, which we can't. Life is too complex for us to take everything into account and control it.

2naSalit

(86,804 posts)
4. Doesn't stop us
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 01:20 PM
Oct 2015

from insisting that we are doing just that and spending kazillions of dollars and destroying all manner of the natural world in the attempt.

 

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
5. The record of our stewardship is strewn all around us.
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 01:35 PM
Oct 2015

The land, the oceans, the forests, the wildlife, the climate - all decimated by human stweardship. For example, our stewardship of wild animals:

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