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“Let the water teem with living creatures…” Gen. 1:20

“Let the water teem with living creatures…” Gen. 1:20. “He provides you with plenty of food…” Acts 14:17. “Fishing fleets are 40% larger than the oceans can sustain…” - UN Report 2000.

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“Let the water teem with living creatures…” Gen. 1:20

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  1. “Let the water teem with living creatures…” Gen. 1:20

  2. “He provides you with plenty of food…” Acts 14:17

  3. “Fishing fleets are 40% larger than the oceans can sustain…” - UN Report 2000

  4. “Annually… 20 million tons of unwanted fish, seabirds, marine mammals and turtles get thrown overboard, dead.” (20% of the world catch) - Time.com 2000

  5. “Catch rates of many fish species have dropped by over 90% during the last century…” - UTC Marine Biology Research Institute

  6. “Let the water teem with living creatures…” Gen. 1:20

  7. The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. Gen. 2:15

  8. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded… Luke 12:48

  9. God has given us so much ...

  10. “If all the worlds people lived like today’s North Americans, it would take two additional planet Earths to produce enough resources and absorb the wastes.” - Our Ecological Footprint, 1996

  11. “It takes an entire forest (over 550,000 trees) to supply Americans with one Sunday’s newspapers.” – Calif. Dept. of Conservation

  12. One out of every $10 spent at the store is for packaging.

  13. Television has so successfully spread the religion of conspicuous consumption, that the world consumed as many goods and services since 1950 (the launching of TV) as had all previous generations put together.” – Jim Motavalli, Editor, E Magazine

  14. “Every year the average American child watches 40,000 TV commercials.” - CIPB 2003

  15. “North Americans are the most wasteful people on the face of the earth. In Rome, people put out about 1.5 lbs. of trash a day; in Nigeria it is about 1 lb. In North America, every day, each person throws out about 4 lbs of waste.” – Suzuki & Gordon, “It’s A Matter Of Survival”

  16. Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children…

  17. Over a quarter of the worlds mammals face extinction within 30 years… - BBC 2002, UN Report

  18. “If timely measures are not taken, we would be faced with the threat of elephant extinction.” - Dayananda Kariyawasam, Director Dept. of Wildlife Conservation, Sri Lanka

  19. Three of eight tiger species have already gone extinct. The population of tigers worldwide has dropped from 100,000 to about 6,000 during the last 100 years. - Tigersincrisis.com

  20. A good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children…

  21. Proverbs 14:31 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.

  22. 1 John 3:17,18 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has not pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

  23. People of lower incomes and people of color are disproportionately affected by environmental degradations all over the world. - Target Earth

  24. The United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice study concludes that the main factor in locating hazardous waste sites is race. It is the first time many hear the term “environmental justice.” - 1987

  25. Since 1958, western oil interests have extracted $30 billion worth of oil from the Nigerian Delta…

  26. Oil companies have turned Nigeria into a waste land of acid rain, polluted waters, and infertile lands. – Ken Saro-Wiwa, author and non-violent spokesman for the Ogoni.

  27. Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed in 1995 by the Nigerian government. – BBC “A fraudulent trial… judicial murder.” - British Prime Minister John Major

  28. Pennwalt Corp. of Pennsylvania, facing environmental pressures, moved its chlorine-processing plant to Lake Managua, Nicaragua, where it dumped 600 tons of mercury into a lake that tens of thousands depend upon for drinking water. – S.F. Chronicle

  29. The U.S. is the only industrialized country that has refused to ratify the Basel Convention, which makes it illegal for industrialized countries to send their toxic waste to the developing world. – Basel Action Network, 2004

  30. “…children were falling sick with mysterious breathing ailments and deadly diseases like leukemia.” The centers use acids and burning to reclaim gold from discarded U.S. electronics, breathing the fumes and dumping the sludge into the river. -www.ban.org

  31. …children falling sick with deadly diseases…

  32. What will future generations inherit from us?

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