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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Environmental Stewardship?



The YMCA has some pretty incredible goals.
One of them is-

Environmental Stewardship: To appreciate the beauty, diversity and interdependence of all forms of life and all resources that God has provided in this world, and to develop an ethical basis for guiding the relationships of mankind with the rest of God's natural community.

What does it mean to develop an ethical basis with God's natural community?
As I leave the Y I see a huge truck that will tear up the earth and develop more for mankind, which is good right?
Then it got me thinking about the fumes that come off the road when the asphalt when it is being poured, the fumes from the car in front of me, the radiation from my phone and even that of my computer as I type, the waves from the microwave when I cooked my dinneys of beans in rice in the plastic bowl that no doubt was made in a large factory...
whew.
What is God's opinion on all of that?
Was that his original intent for mankind w/ his natural community?
You know the whole clogged sink issue?


The matinence guy came by today (who,btw was big burly and smokey smelling, but surprisingly friendly) and dumped plumber grade green gunk down the sink.
It was so strong that we had to close the door with the fan on while we waited for it to work, and hours later the fumes still waft through the house. (Poor Luis was sleeping off his long 4 day night shift stint and I left the window open so he wasn't poisoned.)
As if opening the window would divert us inhaling the fumes, yet it is going straight into the atmosphere!

So I thought it was weird how this issue was on my mind/dialogue w. God, then I get to work at Anna has this...(guys, you might be a little sicked out, but it's true statistics)
There are 85 million women of menstruating age in North America. Conservative estimates are that the average woman disposes of between 10,000 and 15,000 tampons, pads and applicators in her lifetime. That's about 250 to 300 pounds of waste per woman. well, this was in effort to save the environment for women to use Diva Cups...http://www.divacup.com/ Seriously, really great btw...
But if that's how much waste a menstruating woman produces, it just made me think about the amount of other types of waste we are producing with other things that happen more than once month...
So...what does all this mean?
How do we do it God?

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