Earth Day is cute an all, and while it is wrong for us to use a pointless surplus of earth's materials, we cannot live in "harmony with" something that is not the being we claim it to be. Yeah, using our stuff efficiently is good and all, but to say that we're doing it to avoid global warming is a joke. For as long as the earth has existed it has moved in and out of periods that were warmer than usual and periods colder than usual, no matter how much carbon was in the air. Humans are to be stewards of the earth, tending to it and appreciating it and respecting the life held within it, but we are made to USE the earth. And we're not to be selfish with it either, but as long as we're not just out burning every tree we see, we're not going to run out.
Humans are apart from earth; Earth is not some greater force or divine Mother, but it is God's creation and should thus be taken care of and appreciated. If you want to turn your lights off for a day, go ahead, but dont go about it thinking you're saving the planet. You're not. Earth will never be like it once was when there were fewer people. Our responsibility is not to "Mother Earth", but to God.
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