Creation crisis and conservation
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The document discusses environmentalism and caring for God's creation from a Christian perspective. It provides four different attitudes Christians can take towards environmentalism, from seeing it as anti-Christian to integral to Christianity. It argues that environmentalism is integral, as God created the world and called humans to care for it. The ecological crisis stems from spiritual issues according to the Bible. While biodiversity is declining rapidly, local conservation efforts have helped some species. Overall, not much progress has been made towards global biodiversity goals.
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- 1. Creation, Crisis and Conservation Simon N. Stuart Yellow-eared Parrot Ognorhynchus icterotis
- 8. The Biblical Basis for Creation Care Wood Turtle Clemmys insculpta
- 19. Crisis? What Crisis? The world has recognized that biodiversity is continuing at unacceptable levels In 2002, the World Summit on Sustainable Development agreed the following target: TO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE RATE OF BIODIVERSITY LOSS BY 2010
- 22. How is the state of biodiversity changing? Red List Indices Darwin’s Frog Rhinoderma darwini
- 24. The Geography of Extinction
- 25. Where is the risk of extinction greatest? Areas of threatened species richness
- 27. What are the causes of decline and loss?
- 28. The social and economic context People and threatened species are often concentrated in the same areas
- 29. The social and economic context The number of threatened species is likely to increase rapidly in regions where human population growth rates are high
- 30. The social and economic context Countries with the most threatened species tend to be those least able to invest significant resources into conservation
- 31. What responses are in place? For birds 67% of threatened species have some action underway; but these actions have only benefited 24% of species so far