Biological systems suffer diminished capacity to renew themselves. Finite minerals are mined and pumped as if inexhaustible. Peasants are forced onto marginal lands, and soil erodes. The rich-poor gap grows wider. Wastes and poisons exceed nature's capacity to absorb them.
Greenhouse gases pose threat of global warming.
Restoring creation is God's own work in our time, in which God comes both to judge and to restore. The future of our children and their children and all who come after is at stake. In this critical time of transition to a new era, God's new doing may be discerned as a call to earth-keeping, to justice, and to community. Justice today requires participation, the inclusion of all members of the human family in obtaining and enjoying the Creator's gifts for sustenance. Community in our time requires the nurture of solidarity, leading to steadfastness in standing with companions, victims, and allies, and to the realization of the church's potential as a community of support for adventurous faithfulness.