"The Earth is the Lord's and everything in it, the world and all its people belong to him." Psalm 24:1"The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and care for it." Genesis 2:15
The fact that the Earth belongs to God should be enough incentive for us to not trash it up. We take care of the nice TV's God has given us, or our laptops. But what about the nature around us that sustains life?! Say you wanted to go on a vacation so you borrow your friends' RV. Wouldn't you take the best care of it that you possibly could, and return it in just as good of shape as when you got it? (or maybe even better shape!) That's the same thing we are doing here. We are borrowing a temporary home that belongs to God. And, its quite rude and disrespectful to trash it an leave it behind, especially when others are going to borrow it after us.
Not only does the Earth belong to God, the first thing he did after he created man was put him in the awesome garden He had made and said "here, take care of this." He wants us to take care of his creation so lets do it.
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