The sin of Greenhouse GasesReligiously, Greenhouse Gases are also a sinful factor on one of God’s most beautiful creations. Earth is one of the brilliantly simple yet most complicatedly advanced creations of his and is comprised of multiple creatures, components and life forces, all meant to work in harmony with each other to live peacefully and harmonically. Everything that resides within the modern world exists to help others exist, to work co-operatively and to act as an image and reflection of God. As written in the Laudato Si’ (Page 3, 1st Scripture), “…Our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. ‘Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and who produces various fruit with coloured flowers and herbs’”.
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It was created to Glorify him and make his sacrifices and efforts never to be forgotten. However, Greenhouse Gases Rebel against all this. Greenhouse Gases are a byproduct of the burning of fossil fuels, a process done for humans to strive and prosper. However, we could live without these resources through sacrifice and resourcefulness. However, what we are doing is destroying one of God’s proudest achievements. We burn these resources for ourselves at the cost of others and the world. In order to keep humans afloat and thriving, we destroy wildlife, environments and the world itself, when we should be considering them and work harmonically. Essentially, we are destroying an invaluable symbol of God so that we can strive onward at the cost of the world’s entities, environments and itself.
As written in the Laudato Si’ (Page 3, Scripture 2), “This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her. We have come to see ourselves as her lords and masters, entitled to plunder her at will. The violence present in our hearts, wounded by sin, is also reflected in the symptoms of sickness evident in the soil, in the water, in the air and in all forms of life. This is why the earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor; she “groans in travail””. Ironically enough, it will also cost the life of humans for we were not only designed to work harmonically, but cannot live otherwise. Without the cooperation of wildlife, environments and the world itself, we will suffer as we have made them. It is a brutal, sharp reality that will come to the present day if not solved and above all else, will destroy one of God’s most precious, beautiful creations, made to glorify himself and show his sacrifices and efforts.