Just came back from the library... :S im tired. from doing alot of random stuff. of cos. it includes studying. heh but not much. was super distracted. Do agree with me.. its hard to get into the mugging mode... oh well!
As I read I realised that people are conserving and restoring nature in order to provide more for themselves. At the end of the day it is still a selfish gain. Well I don't mean every conservationists are like this, but from the coral reef books and ecology books that i've read, it just seem to suggest that. Hmm.. its good to be conserving and there's nothing wrong really to extract the natural products for the use of mankind because afterall God has provided all these for us. But what I find wrong is.. after all that man has done, there's seem to be no remorse. Nothing really seems to bother humans until the earth turns really bad now.. All the ozone depletion, all the coral bleaching, dynamite finishing, global warming...nothing seems to really matters until humans realise the need to sustain all these that we want to use to sustain our luxurious life. Can we conserve just because we are stewards to where we live? and to restore nature because its God's creation? Seriously, why bother if nature is not one of God's.. earth can almost be treated as a use-and-throw product..heh
Someone ever mentioned, the first world countries pollute the most but the third world countries suffer the consequences of such pollutions the most. While it is true that the third world countries litter the ground as well, who, however, contributes the most to global warming, ozone depletion, oil spills..etc. While the first world people enjoy themselves in air conditioning and complain somemore that its such a hot day, the poor in Africa and even nearby Myanmar toil and faint under the hot sun out in the open, suffering the consequences of global warming. Who has a better chance of getting skin cancer? Think again. Are we being fair..

Then again, what's done cannot be undone. It just goes to show how true God's word is.. that the ground is cursed and the relationship between humans and nature is cursed..Is it even possible to revert our earth back to the original state by our own human efforts where it was lovely and all so sufficient for us, without pollution, without broken ozone, dying plants, extinct animals, bleaching corals, overheated earth...?

Gen 3: 14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this,
"Cursed are you above all the livestock
and all the wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.

15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring ^[a] and hers;
he will crush ^[b] your head,
and you will strike his heel."

16 To the woman he said,
"I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;
with pain you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you."

17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,'
"Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat of it
all the days of your life.

18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return."

Perhaps not... Because humans will continue to sin and exploit our land. Only to think that we are able to use more since we now know how to restore. :S its scary isn't it.. Only when Jesus return and all things shall be made new...

Rev 21:3 "And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.""

Praise the Lord for He is coming back soon!

Below are like some random photos..