Taking Care of our Environment

“Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the

Garden of Eden to tend and keep it.”

- Genesis 2:15

The word "nature" derives from the Latin word natura, or "the course of things, natural character.” Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical universe, material world or material universe. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. This includes all things animal, plant, and mineral; all natural resources and events (hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes). Ever wonder what will happen if we continue to pollute our environment? If we continue to use up all our resources and take Mother Nature for granted? Personally, I don’t want to think about because it scares me. It’s like going way back to the Genesis where everything was in shambles.

As human beings, I believe that we have a role to play in this environment since it was entrusted to us by God. We are to take care of our environment and as much as possible try to preserve it. Especially in our time today, age of science and technology, our environment is put to a greater risk of getting destroyed. So we are called to protect other creatures, the environment, and life itself. We can do a lot of things to help save and protect our environment. By simply putting our trash in the proper place, we’re making a lot of difference already. Another way is by conserving, through this we lessen the possibility of our resources getting all used up. Connected to conserving is preserving, like preserving something that is endangered. By doing this, we help prolong things and help lengthen life of things so that other generations will be able to see it. Another thing that we can do to help care for the environment is to inform and make ourselves aware of what is happening around us. Knowledge and awareness can help us and guide us on what to do. Ignorance is never an excuse when it comes to this matter because we will be the one caught off guard and will be the loser in the end if we do not know how to think, act, and react to the things happening in our environment. As stewards of the earth, we should use our capacities and God-given talents into better use and try our utmost best to balance and make things live harmoniously.

Our environment is something God has given us to enjoy and to experience. It is something that we most definitely can’t live without so I think it is time to make ourselves useful and be better and responsible inhabitants of the earth. We must take action now for procrastinating will not do us good for every wasted second is a wasted chance to save Mother Earth. Let’s not wait for the time when Mother Nature is about to take all things back and is about to take its wrath upon us for we humans constantly abuse her. We should start to be responsible citizens of this place called earth. We should all unite to help save the environment for it is now staring to diminish. We are experiencing God’s work at its finest. We are experiencing all the great things nature can give us so it’s just right to preserve it if we want our children and grandchildren to experience what we’re experiencing. Don’t wait for tomorrow, do it now. Don’t wait for the time to come when water is nothing but a sea of trash and everything that is clean, even the air is for sale.