How Does Environmental Change Affect The Whole World

Environmental changes have had huge effects on the whole world. Although it affects all of us, the bigger and worse impact is on the poor people of developing countries. This is due to their lack of ability to help themselves. They do not have the resources that they need to at least adapt if not make it better. We live in a selfish-minded world which means the people who have the greatest ability to help, do not. People of more developed countries, whether they are rich or poor, are the biggest contributors to the problem yet we do nothing about it. Everyone who is able should be helping these people who because the global economy, are not able to help themselves.
God is the creator. He created us each with different purposes but one of …show more content…
As the creator, God is letting us borrow it. We are “strangers and sojourners” (Leviticus 25:23) here and we are allowed to take and use the Earth’s resources but we are expected to use them responsibly (Francis 49). As time has gone by, we have taken advantage of this privilege and ruined the Earth. God expects us to work together to with nature as well as with each other. Our selfish mindsets keep us from doing that. Developed countries like the U.S, are guilty of this. As a country, we do not do everything that we can to make sure other people don’t suffer from our laziness. In A Life Story, Alma Bandalan and her children suffered serious problems from working with waste from countries who just throw any old thing away. Jason throws an iPod and a blender into the trash and recycling bin without actually knowing where to put them. He was just “hoping” that they were in the right place. We do things like this every day without thinking about the people who will have to deal with it. Our selfishness causes environmental issues which causes problems and diseases that people like the family in the Philippines do not have the resources to take care of. Because we are not directly affected by it in the short run, it is not at the forefront of our minds. While it should be taken into account that these other people suffering not 100% our fault, we are, for the most part, to …show more content…
Again, God intended for us to work together. It has become our nature to put our desires before everything and we don’t think much about the affect it will have in the long run. We only focus on what is going to satisfy us in the present while thousands of miles away, someone is suffering from these choices. We were created in the image of God. We all have the capacity to be selfless and do good not only for ourselves but for others too (Francis 47). Proof of this is found in the Book of Genesis. Because of the way that we live today, we have completely strayed away from the way we were meant to be. The biggest factor of our selfishness is material goods. We have more money and new technology. The money makes us more and more selfish. Most people value money way more than they should; sometimes more than a life and it becomes worse as we keep developing new technologies. Additionally, these newer technologies and our improper use of them are a cause of the problems we are having in the environment both directly and indirectly. All of these products like the iPod that Jason throws away can create toxic waste harmful to both nature and humans. They are also making us, as humans, increasingly lazy. These days, there are devices for younger people that prevent them from having to walk even though they are more than able. The more we rely on technology, the lazier we