Is the goal of humanity to control and dominate nature or is it to leave the Earth better than we found it?

On November 3, after the large scale Republican victory, Karl Rove declared, “climate is gone” at a trade conference for natural gas drillers in Pennsylvania.

According to Rove and the new anti-regulation activists in Congress, the goal is clear: humanity must bend nature to its will, dominate and control the natural world, extract resources, create goods, and perpetuate the cycle of profits over people and planet.

For people of faith this presents an opportunity to affirm the basic and core beliefs that tie us to the planet – our role as stewards of the Earth and our sacred trust with the Creator to leave the Earth better than we found it.

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