essay on care for creation in 400 words
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In Genesis the first humans are given responsibility for caring for creation, but despite this it hasn’t always been a strong theme of Christian thinking over the last 2000 years. Care for creation is even a latecomer to Catholic Social Teaching. Now the world’s resources grow scarcer, caring responsibly for creation is being considered more of a way to ensure respect for human dignity and peace than an end in itself.
Creation provides us with the physical fabric of our lives; the natural environment gives us the stuff we use every day. It gives us the food for our tables, the material for our clothes and the materials to build our houses and churches. It is also a place where people have experienced a great closeness with God through its beauty and wonder. Creation is a gift from God and provides us with these things, the basics for our lives, yet it can so easily and so often be taken for granted.
Modern technology has given us a huge amount of benefits that have helped alleviate suffering and create new methods of solidarity among people. At the same time we can also see how it has made it easier for us to become alienated from our environment, and it's given new and efficient ways to plunder the worlds natural resources en masse. Care for Creation ensures that we don’t neglect, but protect and respect the gift that is our natural environment.