Environmental Ethics
Aside from the discussion and themes that we have made throughout this semester I read an article on environmental ethics that I believe can be thrown into the themes of this class and how we view our world. We have talked about religion in many different forms, from love, to technology, to simply religious symbols, but in my opinion the largest religious symbol that we physically have today is the world that God created for us. It is up to the individuals of this planet to ensure the longevity of this planet for further generations. This article talks about is it ethically acceptable for human civilization to be cutting down trees to make paper, if it is going to systematically kill our planet. There are many opinions that can be brought forward with this article because I for one believe that using hemp, which is what the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and many other important documents, are made of, can eliminate some of the problems we have with cutting down trees. Now the article goes into global warming and the greenhouse effect which is slowly raising the temperature of the Earth, but I will not get into that to much. The idea that I want to bring forward is this question, The world that God has given us to preserve, in order to sustain life, when do you draw the line that ethically the human race is slowly destroying what God has given us?
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