Environment

In the Catholic Bible Genesis states, “God spoke: “Earth, green up! Grow all varieties of seed-bearing plants. Swarm, Ocean with fish and all sea life! Earth, generate life! Every sort and kind. Let us make human beings in our image...God looked over everything he had made it was good, so very good!” Genesis 1 is a very familiar passage. We’ve all heard it numerous times. For many people, it brings to mind beautiful images of mountains and rivers, sunsets and forests. It reminds us of the earth’s beauty and can seem soothing and reassuring. Genesis expresses over and over that Creation is “good.” By the end God looks at the totality of Creation and calls it “very, very good.” From a Catholic standpoint since the Gospel says that the planet is good then we would assume that we should take care of it. Yet we as a human society, we choose to trash and destroy it.
Society takes the stance that we trash our planet because of the style of living we have. Because of our enormously produced economy, society believes that there is a demand that we make consumption our way of life. We convert the buying and use of goods into rituals that seek our spiritual satisfactions or ego satisfaction in consumption. Human society has a need for things to be consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate; which leads to more pollution and exploitation of the environment. When goods are produced and thrown out there are consequences to the environment we must face in the future including, pollution from factories creating the goods, destroying of natural resources to create the goods and garbage in the landfills that are killing the environment from the throwing away of goods. Society has fallen into this trap of consuming goods at an alarming rate and chooses not to try and get out of it. Not only to we fall into this trap but also we think it is okay, that there is no problem with what we are doing.
Society has to realize that industries think of you