Do We Really Know What We are Trying to Conserve?

What do we really know about good old planet Earth anyway? What are its likes and dislikes? Does it actually “appreciate” all the so called, “help” we have tried to give it over the decades? The fact that planet Earth is still here says something for its durability. Seems as though I recall someone declaring that the world was going to end over 100 years ago! Obviously it has not ended yet, and truth be told, as astonishing as it may seem, there really is still some natural beauty left in the old girl yet.

Earth even still has wide open spaces, full of wildlife, and untamed wilderness. It is no wasteland of brick and concrete, and technically speaking, you can fit every human being alive today into a space the size of Jacksonville, Florida. That does not sound to me like the world is overpopulated by any means. It is arrogant to assume that we can knowledgably preserve the world in its pristine state, when we don’t even fully understand the intricate and intertwined mechanisms that make up this world in its current state.

While Earth is truly no “garden of Eden” at this point in time, it is certainly not the toxic waste dump that tree huggers would make it out to be. The Earth is by its very nature, renewable to the extreme. Do what you will to this planet and it manages to bounce back again somehow. The reason is simple…it is difficult to destroy that which you don’t understand in the first place. You can destroy a bug by stomping on it, because you are thousands of times bigger than that bug, but we are thousands of times smaller than Earth, yet we still believe we have the capacity to destroy it. Where exactly is the logic there?

In conclusion I will add that I believe the Earth should be enjoyed rather than just worried over. God gave it to us to use, and to govern. So we do not govern this Earth wisely? I sincerely doubt that God did not account for that when He created our world in the first place. No, He knew exactly what he was doing when He put this blue orb in space, and He knows what He’s doing today as well. So why don’t we quit arguing about who’s right and who’s wrong, and who is polluting and who is not, and just have a little faith, that the wonderfully made world that God gave us is quite capable of outlasting us all.