Earth Day Worldview

1) Environmental Wacko View: According to
some, the deaths of 5.8 billion people are needed to keep Earth
from turning into a "fat, human biomass."

Candidate for the job: the Ebola virus - War, famine & AIDS
are too slow and too survivable, Ebola combines the speed and
lethality necessary to do the job. According to the radical
environmentalist worldview, human beings are a kind invasive
species like the kudzu vine.


2) Fortunately for both people and the environment, there's
an alternative:

It's the Christian idea of man as a steward. And in this view,
man has a unique status within creation, but that status carries
responsibilities.

Unlike an invasive species like kudzu or zebra mussels,
man is aware when his actions needlessly harm another
species or a particular habitat. And because he is created
in the image of God, he is motivated to protect the environment
and to restore the damage he might have done.

This moral duty to seek the welfare of all creation is
a far superior basis for environmental awareness than
the misanthropy of people like Pianka. Keep this in mind
on this "Earth Day": Which worldview would you rather
live under?

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