Can our desire to heal the environment be too much?

I believe many people are worrying too much about the environment. I myself am not worried because I know that Almighty God has complete control over all things and He has his own plan for man and this world as we know it. As the Bible states, God will one day destroy this earth as we know it and create a new one. So I believe we are, to an extent, wasting our time fretting over such issues since we have no true control over them anyway. It is certainly good to show respect to God's creation but our attempts to...so to speak...save the planet is simply an exercise in futility. And in so doing we foolishly focus our attention on the creation rather than the Creator.

I am all for healing the environment by making sure all my trash in the right receptacles, using less of the so called bad for the earth products. But when they raise the prices so that I can't afford to live, not sure how my environment can help me. I do not believer my conscious is overdeveloped in this area more so common sense really.

I think it's all too little too late. We can never care too much but I think we are not doing enough and it's too late. Education is and always was the key and there has not been enough of it...there still isn't. I don't know where we are headed but we seem to be going downhill in a lot of ways. Instead of being healthier we are sicker in spite of the use of chemical cleaners we are still becoming ill and we are suffering allergies in increasing volume. I grew up amid a myriad of germs everywhere and I'm quite healthy. You would be shocked and horrified at my Dad's cleanliness habits and at 97 he is also very healthy. The way I see it is we ALL have to go backwards and adopt an alternative lifestyle....eat and live healthier even if that means more dirt. Eat less processed food and be healthier but it will never work because there are people who think they are above anything like that and would not care that it would be better for them, better for their family, better for coming generations and better for the planet. Not enough people care and even if it was a 90% thing, it would have to be a 100% compliance IMO.

hi pikey do you get bombarded with going green and find that the things whey w ant us to use as part of saving the world are three times the cost of ordinary products. Also so many of these save the planets items while not having toxic chemicals blah blah blah do not work, the natural green crap that replaces dependable chlorox does not' bleach out stains, the natural bowl cleaner does not leave your toilet clean, and I can go on and on, a lot of go green expensive items just do not work.Also we here in the US are being made to give up plastic bags okay fine for people who are hale and hearty. but when I carry a paper sack of groceries in my left arm I need the sack to be sturdy not tear under the weight of the food in them. I cannot lift my left arm but a few inches up and lifting a tearing paper bag onto the table is usually a calamity. I then have to retrieve my food items with my right hand only as they are rolling all over the place.My left arm was rendered partly useless by a bionic shoulder joint replacement. somehow the muscles connected to the steel and plastic joint just do not work like they did before I broke my shoulder.I can still rememberz coming back to mylot and trying to type again with my left hand, i had to learn how to type all over mostly.

Conscience not overdeveloped enough...

greetings! i don't think we are even worried enough. we're not doing enough to save the environment. every week, you hear manmade disasters happening from every continent. if we're doing more than what is necessary, then these disasters would not have been happening that often.

I miss thew carefree, don't worry days of the 60's etc. Everything seems to be bad for our helath as told to us my the multitudes of "these" people. Plus the things we do are bad for us as well. I've had it to a point about all this mayhem so I live my life as well as I have for 57 years and do what I can for the future of the world as well to a degree. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~

Hello pikey This is indeed a delicate subject to approach. Well considering that the standards of life have increased in the last century, more than in the last 500 years and every bit of luxury tends to polute some more, one should consider the environment of course. I do agree with hatley, that some products are USELESS - and they are only made to make money from us rather then to protect the environement. I do think that when manking was only a group of hunters and gatherers theyre was less to none polution, but i am guessing the life span was low as well. But healing the environment does pose a question - should he HEAL the effects or should we FIX the causes ? I believe in fixing the causes, like alternate fuel (using hidrogen for cars) would go a long way toward a cleaner environment and also planting 2-5 trees, for every one that is chopped down would prove quite useful.

I do not think that we are worrying too much. Sure, it is not worth stressing ourselves over it until we get sick, but these issues are real and are upon us now! They are not just something that may happen in the future. We are already experiencing extreme weather events more often than ever before in recorded history. We are also seeing animals and plants, complete ecosystems, disappearing at an alarming rate, never witnessed before. The bees are probably the major concern. If we lose all the bees, then we will only have a few years after that before the food runs out! I don't know what it is like in the UK, but here where we have a very dry climate most of the time, we have very little topsoil and what is remaining is being washed or blown away at a rapid rate, leaving more salinity issues and deserts where there were once forests. We will become like the Middle East if we do not turn this around. Apparently in the Middle East, there used to be large forests and waterways where there is now only deserts. This is why you see ghost towns half or completely buried in the sand over there. These used to be thriving communities, but their over grazing and misuse of the land led them to the point where they had to abandon the towns.

I don't think it's too much. I actually think it's lacking. We should put more effort in trying to save the world. Small efforts are big when seen collectively. Though, there is the reasoning of selfish people, 1. I didn't create this problem 2. Everyone's polluting, so why shouldn't I 3. Saving the earth requires a lot of effort from me. 4. Saving the earth makes me uncomfortable These reasons are the reasons why we're in this mess the first place. We should start saving the earth for the future generations. It won't be long before the earth can't sustain life anymore.