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Friday, July 24, 2009

Catastrophe at Coorong reaches point of no return

IT'S an appalling irony that the five-year Living Murray agreement between the states and the Commonwealth to rescue six "icon" sites expired last month just as one of the sites, the Coorong near Adelaide, is dying. Gone is the abundance of birds, fish and other wildlife that earned the system of lakes and lagoons national park status and a listing under the Ramsar convention as a wetland of international significance. The unique meeting of waters — seawater and river water, rainfall and groundwater, which meant so much to the area's original inhabitants, is a thing of the past.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/editorial/catastrophe-at-coorong-reaches-point-of-no-return-20090723-dut9.html

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Important Lessons from the Bible

Why Jesus came:
"that the world might be saved through him"
John 3:17

Who Jesus is going to use to save the world:
"For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God."
Romans 8:19

Our role on earth:
"The LORD God put the man in the Garden of Eden to take care of it and to look after it."
Genesis 2:15

The Five Pillars of A Christian Theology of Sustainability

1. God is the creator, sustainer and redeemer of creation.

2. Covenantal Stewardship (we have a covenant with God as stewards of the earth).

3. The creation-fall-redemption paradigm (God made a good world; human failure broke the relationships between god, man and creation; Christ provides hope for all creation).

4.Bodily resurrection(we will rise with bodies, not as spirits)

5.New Creation (a new Heaven and new Earth refers to a renewal and an earthing of heaven, not starting over).

Adapted from When Enough is Enough: A Christian Framework for Environmental Sustainability, Edited by R.J. Berry, Published by Inter-Varsity Press, 2007, Nottingham p43+