As a Christian, my environmental worldview varies from others. Some people think we should take charge of everything and disregard other creatures, but I believe God intended us to live in harmony. I also believe that God created this planet and all of its components for us humans to live on in harmony with wildlife, care for it, utilize its resources in a responsible manner because he gifted us humans the knowledge to versus other creatures. In this paper, I will discuss my reasoning behind my view, my ecological footprint, how my life measures up to my worldview and what I can personally do to bring it into alignment.
The reason I have Christian, environmental world view has a lot to do with how I was raised. I was raised in the church and was taught to live in harmony with wildlife and take care of our earth. In the last thousands of years, God put man on the earth and provided us the knowledge to live and survive on this planet. But thousands of years ago, the way of life was difficult. We started out living hard, walking everywhere we needed to go, hunting and scavenging for food, searching for water and finding ways to survive. As time went on, God continued to increase our knowledge. We made discoveries that would reduce the rough work we humans were doing just to survive. Fast forward to a few hundred years ago, we humans have become lazy and adapted to a luxurious lifestyle and diminished our resources, polluted the earth and caused climate change. Our environmental concerns remind of a passage in the Bible 1, Timothy 6:6-10, where God provided for someone, they sinned, became greedy, then God took it away. This passage describes the effects of greed’s and described the repercussions. The way I look at it, is that God provided the earth for us humans, we sinned and became greedy, then God is slowly punishing us through climate change. He is using it to teach us humans and let us recognize the problem we have cause and the effects from climate change. He is giving us a chance to start to fix our problem, conserve and restore the earth for future generations. The first way to conserve is through learning about our ecological footprint.
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After taking the footprint calculator quiz, it stated that my ecological footprints means that my personal earth overshoot day is March 3rd and if everyone lived like me, we would need 5.8 earths. I thought about this and it made me feel horrible because if everyone acted like just one person, we would need that many earths to survive. If I made changes, which I need and want to do, this is how my daily life would look like. First, I would have to seal every window and door in my house, which is over one hundred years old. Due to its old age, keeping heat and cool air in is extremely difficult, so sealing it would be the first step. The second step would be to reduce my trash. On average, I take about two, thirty-gallon trash bags of trash to the landfill each week. This week I started sorting my trash, I started a recycle bin and throw away less plastic. I started watching what exactly I was throwing away and I noticed that it was all packaging from items I have purchased. I never knew or paid attention to how much packing was around single-use items. So, I’m working on not purchasing that many items with heavy, unnecessary packing. The third thing I could do to reduce my ecological footprint is to reduce my travels or attempt to. Unfortunately, I travel a lot for work and for school. I have roughly a forty-five minute to an hour drive to work every day. Then the travel from work to school is roughly thirty to forty minutes of traveling. I fill up my car at least twice a week because I am constantly traveling. This would be my most difficult change because my travels are necessary. The last change I could personally make to improve the environment, is to pay attention to what I consume on a daily basis. I noted the foods I was consuming, and three fourths of my trash was coming from the food. From fast food arriving and the trash accumulated from that, to the home cooked meals which required meat, veggies, trash from the packaging, and electricity used to cook the meal. The worst thing I do is use plastic disposable water bottles throughout the day because I am constantly on the go and need to keep my self-hydrated. My challenge to myself to do this week is to use reusable water bottles and fill them up at water fountains so I don’t waste so much plastic.
After establishing my worldview through a Christian standpoint, releasing my ecological footprint, establishing what I am doing wrong that is harming the environment and coming up with a plan to reduce my impact, I have learned that it is going to not only myself, but others to save the earth and preserve it for future generations.
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