Living In An Increasingly Environmentally Degraded World

                                     Humanity thinks it is advancing, because in a few quarters there is order and abundance. People think that the more technology advances, the more humanity advances. When in fact, all life is dependent upon the natural world. The more nature is destroyed, the more biodiversity disappears, the more species enter extinction, the closer life ends for humanity itself. Destroy nature and the web of life, and it matters not how sophisticated is the technology and alternative realities of people.
                                     What is unfortunate is that someone that lived a hundred years ago would have seen an abundance that I can never imagine. And someone that is young now will never see the nature that I have seen, because with each passing year there is less and less. I remember swimming in a coral reef that was a fraction of what it was thirty years ago. I could only see the loss and devastation. A young couple, seeing the coral reef for the first time, might be amazed at its splendor, not realizing it is less than 10 per cent of what it was just thirty years ago.
                                        Someone has to want to see this world protected and not turned into a sewer. But who? Too much of religion in this world has people brainwashed into thinking this world does not matter, and it is simply the prelude to the next. But if someone really believes in God, then why would they not want what God created protected? Why would God want this precious planet turned into the filthy cesspool it is rapidly becoming?
                                           The more this world is degraded, polluted and contaminated, the harder life becomes for all living creatures. Viruses, new diseases, proliferate in garbage pits. Earth was not meant to be mankind's toilet.
                                             Many that have a lot, and live with order and abundance, fail to see the incredible disorder, environmental degradation and lack of abundance that is the lot of most of humanity.
                                             Caring about the environment is a true expression of faith. We may think that environmental concerns are secondary to our religious, political and economic interests, but they are not. Earth was not meant to be humanity's toilet. There will be a point of no return, if it has not already been reached, in which environmental destruction dooms not just the many species already facing extinction, but mankind itself.