Everything is connected. Whether our view is the Big Bang or Creation, everything came from a beginning point, and everything exists in relation to other elements in existence.
We do not live in a bubble. Our health is influenced heavily by our environment, which includes people and things, air and water, earth and sky. What happens to the parts of our environment happens to us. The health of the individual cannot exist separately from the health of the planet.
Below is God’s instruction to Adam concerning Adam’s (mankind’s) role in Eden. Most translations use the words “dress and keep” to describe what Adam is to do. The numbers are the Strong’s Concordance references, and a more appropriate translation, one that gives a better understanding, is that Adam is to “serve and protect” the garden (earth).
And the LORD H3068 God H430 took H3947 (H853) the man,H120 and put H5117 him into the garden H1588 of Eden H5731 to dress H5647 it and to keep H8104 it (Gen. 2:15 NKJV).
If this is not accepted as divine instruction, at least those who do not believe in the truth of the Bible can see in this story the wisdom of the ancient people – they understood the relationship between humans and their surroundings. There is an interdependence among all the elements of nature, and mankind is not exempt.
These next few articles will look at the impact we have had on our environment, and the resulting impact that this has had on our health. The point is not just to identify the negative impacts, but also to chart a course toward restoration of balance in nature.
What must be accomplished on a global scale cannot be accomplished if it is not begun on the level of the individual. There will be practical suggestions that we may each implement, as well as big picture views of where we are and what must be done to be where we want to be, where we must be for better quality of life and perhaps even survival.
There will be a range of topics and their impact on health, including the following:
Energy: the carbon cycle, nuclear fallout, and alternative practical choices;
Land use: the carbon cycle, restoration of harmony of vegetation, animals, and humans;
Food: the carbon cycle; nutrition versus volume; harmony of vegetation, animals, and humans;
Housing: practical means for living without destroying nature;
Transportation: getting from here to there without destroying here or there;
Recycling: changing the disposable mindset;
Corporations: businesses as collections of people rather than as mechanisms for advancing narrow interests;
Et cetera.
We do not live in a bubble. Our health is influenced heavily by our environment, which includes people and things, air and water, earth and sky. What happens to the parts of our environment happens to us. The health of the individual cannot exist separately from the health of the planet.
Below is God’s instruction to Adam concerning Adam’s (mankind’s) role in Eden. Most translations use the words “dress and keep” to describe what Adam is to do. The numbers are the Strong’s Concordance references, and a more appropriate translation, one that gives a better understanding, is that Adam is to “serve and protect” the garden (earth).
And the LORD H3068 God H430 took H3947 (H853) the man,H120 and put H5117 him into the garden H1588 of Eden H5731 to dress H5647 it and to keep H8104 it (Gen. 2:15 NKJV).
If this is not accepted as divine instruction, at least those who do not believe in the truth of the Bible can see in this story the wisdom of the ancient people – they understood the relationship between humans and their surroundings. There is an interdependence among all the elements of nature, and mankind is not exempt.
These next few articles will look at the impact we have had on our environment, and the resulting impact that this has had on our health. The point is not just to identify the negative impacts, but also to chart a course toward restoration of balance in nature.
What must be accomplished on a global scale cannot be accomplished if it is not begun on the level of the individual. There will be practical suggestions that we may each implement, as well as big picture views of where we are and what must be done to be where we want to be, where we must be for better quality of life and perhaps even survival.
There will be a range of topics and their impact on health, including the following:
Energy: the carbon cycle, nuclear fallout, and alternative practical choices;
Land use: the carbon cycle, restoration of harmony of vegetation, animals, and humans;
Food: the carbon cycle; nutrition versus volume; harmony of vegetation, animals, and humans;
Housing: practical means for living without destroying nature;
Transportation: getting from here to there without destroying here or there;
Recycling: changing the disposable mindset;
Corporations: businesses as collections of people rather than as mechanisms for advancing narrow interests;
Et cetera.
