Natural capital, as Dr. James Martin explains in The Meaning of the 21st Centu
ry (Riverhead Books 2006), are the environmental resources that fuel man’s insatiable need to live and practice culture. Unfortunately, we have thought of and in some cases pursue the belief that natural capital is inexhaustible–that we will never run out of food to eat, water to drink, air to breath. Or we do accept and acknowledge that these resources are indeed fleeting and prone to damage but disregard any action to preserve and conserve earth’s bounty.
It is a sin to our children and the future generations to deprive them of the gifts that we get from nature by our inaction to conserve our natural resources. I’ve read from an online news source that “A key international body of the Anglican Church has declared the wilful destruction of the environment to be a sin”.
Indeed it is our moral obligation to protect the environment.
