Global warming, pollution, wildlife extinction, poisons and pesticides.
What are we doing to this planet we call home?
When world leaders gathered in Nairobi for a UN climate change
conference recently, they learned our oceans are becoming more acidic,
threatening the food chain. Droughts and floods in Africa are related
to deforestation, and climate change is moving faster than human
efforts to counteract it.
We’ll learn more about Canada’s participation in the
conference, and speak to critics who say our government isn’t
doing enough to address environmental concerns.
We’ll visit with two Halifax professors and learn that human
domination is driving many seafood species to dangerously low levels.
We’ll also hear from environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki and speak
with former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore about his new film “An
Inconvenient Truth.” Finally, we’ll meet two men who
believe caring for creation is not only the smart thing to do,
it’s their spiritual duty.
Whether you accept the story as truth or allegory,
the biblical description of creation—as told in the first chapters of
the first book of the Bible—is an inspiring account. In it, we learn
that God intended for humanity to care for creation.
As we’ve
heard today, all of nature seems to be alerting us to the fact that we
haven’t been doing the best job of that, that we could be. Still, I am
encouraged by some of our guests today, who’ve reminded us that
everyone has a vital role to play in caring for this planet we call
home.
Even small changes can have a huge impact. Turning off
lights and appliances when they’re not in use, reducing the number of
miles we drive and fly, avoiding heavily packaged products and
recycling more – these are minor lifestyle adjustments that can add up
to a major difference for our environment. We owe it to future
generations to do better. And as Will Braun pointed out, perhaps we
even owe it to our own souls to try.
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