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• the views of radical environmentalists, many of whom hold to “untouched nature” as their ideal
• Another tendency of secular culture is to view much use of the earth’s resources with fear—fear that human beings will damage some part of “untouched nature,” which seems to be the environmentalists’ ideal.
• Some of them give the impression that they think the major problem with the whole earth is the presence of human beings!
• A report by that trust entitled A Population-Based Climate Strategy said, “Population limitation should therefore be seen as the most cost-effective carbon offsetting strategy available to individuals and nations.”15 By contrast, God’s perspective in the Bible is that the creation of human beings in his image and placing them on the earth to rule o...
• Another implication of this component of a Christian worldview is that we should view the development and production of goods from the earth as something morally good, not merely an evil kind of “materialism.”