CONSERVING THE EARTH: CHRISTIANS’ BUSINESS
For the good earth which God has given us, and for the wisdom and will to conserve it, let us pray to the Lord. Prayers of the People, Book of Common Prayer The sight — on TV — of sea otters and sea birds foundering and dying in the oily mess of the Exxon Valdez accident brought a sense of ecological horror that few such events have conveyed. Maybe it was because the disaster happened on an American shoreline and was lavishly covered by the media. But it hit us right between the eyes. We should keep it in perspective, though. How much of our attention, for example, was riveted last August, when 1,200 Bangaladeshish died in floods, brought on in good part by another violation of the environment — deforestation and overgrazing in Himalayan highlands of India and Nepal? The Evangel.
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