“God then makes people whom he puts right in the middle of all this loaded creation. Commanding them to care for creation, to manage it, to lovingly use it, to creatively order it... They are environmentalists. Being deeply connected with their environment is who they are. For them to be anything else or to deny their divine responsibility to care for all that God has made would be to deny something that is at the core of their existence. This is why litter and pollution are spiritual issues.”
![“We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.” quote by Joe Lieberman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/56d/joe-lieberman-9646_contempt_we-cannot-fulfill-that-purpose-environme_788393.jpg)
