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Pros And Cons Of The Environment

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CHRISTIANS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

What is our environment? Why should we care? Our environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth. This includes the natural environment- the atmosphere (the air we breathe), the waters that cover over seventy percent of the earth 's surface (oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, streams, ponds), as well as groundwater (sub-surface water that many of us are dependent on for our water supply) and the plants and animals that live on this planet. Of course it also includes the social environment- the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact; and the built environment- constructed surroundings that provide the setting …show more content…

We might ask, but doesn’t climate vary naturally? If climate change is a natural process and the greenhouse effect is a natural process, then why all the big fuss about “global warming”?

Firstly, we need to understand that climate variability is the natural change that the climate goes through over various periods of time from months to years to decades, centuries or even millennia and geological time scales. In recent years, scientists have posed and are actively seeking to find answers to the following questions. Has the climate changed in the past century? Is this change due to anthropogenic activity? How will climate change in the future? What are the impacts of this change?

What has been the major cause for concern is that the concentration of greenhouse gases (those that trap heat in the atmosphere such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide) has increased so significantly since the Industrial Revolution that these changes due to human activity have caused the planet to warm significantly. In the pursuit of material and monetary gain- such as deforestation and destroying ecosystems to build and expand our cities, to construct massive structures to house our businesses and industries- we have ignored our duty to take care of God’s creation. Jesus warns us in Matthew 6:24 that ‘No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and

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