What Is the Most Important Environmental Task Facing American Christians Today?
The dominion mandate to Adam and Eve at the creation makes responsibility for creation stewardship inescapable.
Introduction
People are called to wise stewardship of the Earth that God created. Today, many environmental concerns clamor for attention and investment. Some Christian leaders point to possible climate change as the greatest threat facing the planet, proposing multi-trillion dollar efforts to prevent predicted global warming. Others prefer to concentrate on addressing more immediate problems such as air and water pollution, toxic and nontoxic solid wastes, contamination of land and waterways by agricultural chemicals and wastes, deforestation, and habitat and species loss. How do we prioritize these challenges? What is the most important environmental task facing American Christians today?
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