Earth Day Update: Making People Suffer is Not Good Stewardship
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Heritage Foundation Religion and a Free Society fellow Ryan Messmore comments on Earth Day at crosswalk.com:
The concept of stewardship involves taking care of something that belongs to somebody else. For Christians, stewardship of the environment recognizes that “the earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof” (Psalm 24:1). … Practices that actually generate worse suffering among people cannot be justified as good stewardship. Yet too often this is what happens in the name of environmental protection. (more…)