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Respect For The Earth Flashcards

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What does stewardship call us to do?

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To live in An interrelated way

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What is stewardship?

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The responsibility people have to respect & care for all creation

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Where does everything we consume come from?

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The natural world

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What does everything in creation have?

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A specific role to play

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Why are humans unique?

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Because we alone can choose how we interact with creation

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What isn’t new? What is new?

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Environmental problems are nothing new

What is new is the extent & severity of the damage

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How much of the planets surface do rain forests cover?

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6%

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What is the rainforest home to?

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Home to over half of the worlds animal & plant species

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How many hectares are destroyed each year & how?

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10.4 million

By logging & agriculture

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Roughly how many species go extinct every day?

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100

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What is rain forest depletion an example of?

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Social sin

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What are the 2 major causes of rain forest depletion?

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Commercial logging

Subsistence farming

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What is commercial logging?

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Spurred you developed nations demand to use it in everything from plywood to furniture to chopsticks & impoverished nations are hesitant to restrict it as it’s a form of income..even if loggers make far more than those who live in the forest

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What is subsistence farming?

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Small time farming that causes 60% of rain forest destruction & will meet only the basic needs of a family. They cut & burn to find areas to grow food, but the poor soil conditions causes them to move frequently

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What is global climate change?

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Relatively rapid worldwide changes in temperature & precipitation that threatens animal & plant species around the world

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What is a major cause of climate change?

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Our rapid consumption

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U.S. has only ___% of the worlds population, but it emits ___%of the worlds carbon dioxide

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4.6%

21%

17
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What does the u.s. lead the world in?

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Green house gas emissions

18
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What is the population question?

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With our population expected to reach 9 billion by 2045, what do we do?

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What are held up as a solution to the population question?

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Family planning programs but the church rejects this for 4 reasons

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Who do family planning programs regularly target?

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Poor people in developing nations with abortions or artificial birth control

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4 reasons why the Catholic Church rejects family planning:

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  1. Abortion denies life
  2. Artificial birth control is seem by the church as a way of “playing God” & choosing when you want a child
  3. They unjustly target the developing world
  4. This denies the primary cause of environmental damage-excessive consumption & poverty
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What has been done to help correct environmental problems?

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Affluent nations concur their consumption & work to bring impoverished nations out of poverty

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What does the 1st creation story give us an image of?

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Humanity living in harmony with nature. Meat eating is forbidden to all in the garden. It was e part of God’s plan

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What did the 2nd creation story add?

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New depth to our understanding of stewardship. The tree specifically teaches us we can take whatever we want from creation

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We are not Gods but…

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We are to model ourselves on God & to be reflections of God as we interact with creation in love & care

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What aren’t we given with creation?

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We aren’t given creation to control it & bend it to our will. Rather our right to use resources to make human lives better is balanced by our responsibility to care for the whole earth

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What does respect for creation come from?

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Our understanding that God is in all of it

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What part of our problem with developing good conservation habits?

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We as a culture tend to view something’s value by its economic worth

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In truth, what does everything have?

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A God-given value that can’t be measured by money

30
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How do we do justice?

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Awareness
Analysis
Action

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What is awareness?

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We must see, hear & know the world in a spirit of intimate compassion just as God does

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What is analysis?

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We ask ourselves why the world is the way it is & how it can be made as God intended it to be

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What is action?

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Once we’ve answers the above questions we can act for justice in ways that make life better for everyone

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