[Hawk1976]

Okay, lets look at it from a Christian point of view for a second. The Earth is given to humans but we are also commanded to be good stewards. A good steward will not wantonly violate the environment.

Corporations exist for profit. Which is how it should be, unfortunately they tend to look strictly at the short term and profit margin. That makes it look like a good idea to dump the waste byproduct from your brewery into the nearest creek, it harms the environment and will harm others downstream but hey it increased the corporations profit. That means I need a warren of some sort to make the corporation dispose of the waste byproduct in the most human and environment friendly way. Even if it means there product may cost a bit more.

All those corporations moved to China which may as well be renamed the land of slave labor and no environmental protection law. Now their rivers are hopelessly polluted, just like New England's rivers just two decades ago, and there is a smog cloud emanating from China that can reach the Oregon coast.

We do not know neither the day nor hour of Christ's return. We must remain good and faithful stewards. Evidence from communist and former communist countries should tell you that environmental conservation and stewardship is not a leftist ideal.

[wintertime]

We must remain good and faithful stewards. Evidence from communist and former communist countries should tell you that environmental conservation and stewardship is not a leftist ideal.

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I agree. If land has importance toward preserving the earth, then the community should justly pay the owner for its collective use.

I don't believe that Christ would approve of falsely planting an endangered plant on a farmer's land. He would consider this theft and destruction of that man's financial worth. Those falsely planting the endangered species are not worshiping Christ. They are worshiping their own golden calf of environmentalism.