Accepting responsibility for ensuring that the earth's resources maintain sustainable.
The word stewardship comes from the word steward. A steward is a person appointed to be in charge of a kingdom if the king dies but the prince is not old enough to become king. Although the steward controls the kingdom, it isn't his. This is the same for the Earth. Mankind is responsible for taking care of the earth for future generations but still does not own the Earth.
The world is already having difficulty sharing resources without taking into fact that this issue will become even worse as the world population continues to grow. Because the population is growing, environmental stewardship must be taken more seriously.
Stewardship invovles the acceptance of the responsibility to take care of our planet. It means realizing that Earth cannot self-sustain forever, and needs our help to treat its failing health. Therefore, in the context mentioned previously, stewardship can be defined as the responsibility of taking care of our planet to ensure our way of living is sustainable for a time to come.
The following image is a Catholic artistic interpratation of what stewardship means for the people of the Earth.
A few things that can start you on your way to becoming a good steward of our planet are:
Replace what you take. For every tree you cut down, plant a new one.
Use what you take. Instead of pouring yourself a glass of water, drinking half, and pouring the rest down the sink, pour yourself half a glass, or put the remaining water in the fridge.
Don't hunt for fun. If you need meat to eat and would rather not purchase processed, or prefer the taste of fresh meat, that's one thing. But don't kill animals as a sport. It only furthers the damage we're doing to our planets ecosystem and upsets the balance of living things.
Resources:
Gardner, Robert and Lavold, Wayne. Exploring Globalization. Canada: McGraw Hill, 2007.
The word stewardship comes from the word steward. A steward is a person appointed to be in charge of a kingdom if the king dies but the prince is not old enough to become king. Although the steward controls the kingdom, it isn't his. This is the same for the Earth. Mankind is responsible for taking care of the earth for future generations but still does not own the Earth.
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When we kill the environment and animals, we are killing humans as well.
The world is already having difficulty sharing resources without taking into fact that this issue will become even worse as the world population continues to grow. Because the population is growing, environmental stewardship must be taken more seriously.
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The earth is in our hands.
Jaimie Bird, Social Studies 10, Semester 1, period 2
Resources:
-Exploring Globalizationn textbook
-Richard Bird (my dad)
-http://www.sthilda.ca/images/earth.jpg
-http://www.wildernesscommittee.org/campaigns/publiclands/parks/reports/Vol21No04/images/01_BC_for_sale.gif
Rollend Scherger, Semester 2 Period 2
Stewardship
Stewardship invovles the acceptance of the responsibility to take care of our planet. It means realizing that Earth cannot self-sustain forever, and needs our help to treat its failing health. Therefore, in the context mentioned previously, stewardship can be defined as the responsibility of taking care of our planet to ensure our way of living is sustainable for a time to come.
The following image is a Catholic artistic interpratation of what stewardship means for the people of the Earth.
A few things that can start you on your way to becoming a good steward of our planet are:
Resources:
Gardner, Robert and Lavold, Wayne. Exploring Globalization. Canada: McGraw Hill, 2007.
Stewardship.
http://www.dioceseofraleigh.org/how/stewardship/stew/conference.aspx
6/5/08
Updated By: scherger-rundle