• When we consider what we should do about the environment people typically blame many things on the environment. Some people blame American consumerism, that is the American’s idea that they can take over anything and make it their own. Again is the insatiable desire for things and more power the thing that America lifts up as a good and desirable thing? Yes it does. America holds up consumerism in every advertisement you see. You see a person having some product in their hand and appearing to be completely fulfuilled in it. That is American consumerism and how it affects our society. Now when we see that and point at it and say “Get rid of American consumerism, that is the problem, that is what will save the environment.” That would be a mistake because there is something deeper. American consumerism fuels the fire on the damage of the environment. It makes people tear down entire forest so that they can build a development that “fulfills” the desire of the American Dream for 50 familes. Yet when that development is built, the 40 of those 50 familes begin looking for a house on the beach or in the mountains or on a local lake, seeking more. Man keeps looking for something else to fulfill him and it is all OK in the name of the American Dream. Could this be coveting when we continually are discontented in our situations and looking for another outlet? Yet back to my point when looking at environmental cases, we could blame American consumerism for the destruction of our environment. The deeper issue is sin. Man’s self intrest and trust in his ways over the ways of the Lord. He cannot find what he is looking for therefore he keeps on trying new things, failing everytime because he doesn’t realize complete contentment is found in the Lord. That covetness and that endless desire is much like sexual addictions. I cant find this so I’ll go over here and try to get this house and destroy this entire marshland cause it looks like a fun place to look at. Ill destroy this “small” patch on the mountain cause that’s what I have worked for and I own the land. We never consider all the stuff we tear down when we destroy things. So, the root of the destruction of God’s creation is a sin problem of pride and horrible stewardship and covetness more than a secular academic term of American consumerism or even progress.

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