Faith and the Environment

On April 8, the Collegium of Officers of the United Church of Christ released a significant theological statement, "And Indeed It Is Very Good -- A Pastoral Letter on Faith and Environment: Living in Community with God's Creation." The letter offers a new prophetic word about the need to celebrate the beauty of the earth and engage in faith action on behalf of the interrelated components of creation. We want to make clear the UCC's extravagant hospitality with evangelical courage that extends to the environmental and the social, the local and the global.

http://www.ucc.org/earthcare/

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[dinoguy0]

i hate to be a downer but this is not a legitimate concern for christians. let me rephrase that: this is not what the church needs to be comprimising for. we are to be good stewards of God's creation, but not worshipers of it. there was a statement in this video "my brothers and sisters around the world are one with me" (3:40); that is called hinduism. that is why hiduism is so popular in enviormentalist circles, because hindus believe that the world and everything in it is one... we DON'T.

[marquisxdesade]

The polar bear I believe is doomed to extinction, it looks like the ice in antarctica and the arctic will melt, less it can adapt to a new type of enviroment, it is extinct.

On the positive side to what mankind is doing to the planet, if we keep on doing what we are doing we as a species will go extinct. Then the world will eventually heal itself over tens of thousands of years and new species will evolve. The planet is far more powerful than we are, we will be destroyed before it is.