Is it right to abuse
our Planet Earth? Is it good to abuse it?
One of my Facebook
friends recently took a missionary trip to Honduras. He described
what he saw as they went across a bridge that spanned one of the
rivers. As he looked down at the river, it was filled with trash,
lots of it. There was so much trash that he could barely see the
water. I have read of other countries around the world with the same
thing happening; trash everywhere. It is polluting their water
sources. This happens all the time in areas of poverty.
I know that there
are monstrous amounts of garbage congregating in areas of the Pacific
and the Atlantic oceans. Look up The Great Pacific garbage patch. It
is estimated to be twice the size of Texas and growing rapidly. The
same thing is in the Atlantic ocean.
Think about all the
things we do that pollute. Strip mining, drilling, manufacturing,
poisons to get rid of perceived pests, oil and gas processing,
plastics, transportation, even farming and raising domestic animals
can pollute. There are so many things when you really think about it.
I’ve been
following the scientific discoveries of the planet Mars exploration rovers.
From the discoveries they've made, there is evidence that Mars once
had oceans, lakes, and rivers. There are areas of the planet that
still have frozen water, but most of the surface water is gone. Could Mars
have once supported life? Maybe even humans once lived on the planet.
Maybe they abused their planet to the point that it became what we
see today.
Have you ever
thought about what keeps the water on Earth from escaping into outer
space? I have read that there is an atmospheric layer that surrounds Earth that
does that. It keeps the water from escaping into the vacuum of outer
space. I have also read some about that layer being depleted. I don’t
know how fast or how much that is happening but it is something to
think about. I think that it would be good to find out more about it
and if there is something we can do to reverse the process. Could
Earth become like Mars? I kind of think that it could if we humans
don’t come together, quit doing the things that abuse the planet,
and find ways to reverse the destructive process.
All of the developed
countries of the world spend massive amounts of money to develop
weapons that destroy, each country trying to outdo the others. What a
waste. We are so afraid of each other that we think that our weapons
will save us when things are happening to our planet that will
destroy us if we ignore what is happening.
We keep asking God
to fix things. Why would God want to continue helping us when we keep
doing the things that work against us?
The following are some things we can do to help reverse our destructive ways: