“Perhaps the most crucial aspect of Christian obedience to God today concerns the responsibility of the Christian, in a technological society, toward creation and God’s creation and God’s will for creation. Obedience to God’s will for nature and for man – respect for nature and love for man –  in the awareness of our power to frustrate God’s designs for nature and for man – to radically corrupt and destroy natural goods by misuse and blind exploitation, especially by criminal waste.” Thomas Merton

Why do we do this?