What we have is a blessing from God, and he expects us to use it wisely. I know that waste displeases God because Jesus tells me this in the way he lived his life.
John 6:12, Jesus, after he has fed the multitudes with loaves and fishes, tells his disciples to “gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.”
Our ecomonic system is the most efficient and successful in the world. It does not necessarily eliminate waste, in fact in many ways it does just the opposite.
I don’t advocate changing our economic system, or joining the Kyoto protocol. My only point is that there is much waste in this world that could be easily eliminated. I don’t know whether global warming is real or not, or whether it is man made. But I do know that waste is not a good thing.
Is that it? Are you comparing the command to pick up leftovers from the feeding of the multitudes with environmental degradation?
Our ecomonic system is the most efficient and successful in the world. It does not necessarily eliminate waste, in fact in many ways it does just the opposite.
I did not say it eliminates waste - I said it eliminates waste more than any other. The modern capitalist production processes are designed to eliminate waste thru cost economization of material, energy, manpower and distribution. No other economic system can produce such streamlined results. Government interference is the main culprit of uneconomic manipulation of those goals. That is why it is so important to keep the feds and UN out our economies - they will create more waste than they claim to eliminate.
By the way, what proof is anyone offering that Global warming will have an overall negative affect on the earth? I've seen numerous studies that show IF Global warming does occur, it will have a net beneficial affect on mankind. If its man you want to see destroyed, I guess thats a negative.