There are two basic rationales for doing this, one based in science and one in religion. Herman Daly offers both. Our ability and inclination to enrich the present at the expense of the future, and of other species, is as real and as sinful as our tendency to further enrich the wealthy at the expense of the poor. To hand back to God the gift of Creation in a degraded state capable of supporting less life, less abundantly, and for a shorter future, is surely a sin. Sometimes we find ourselves in an impasse in which sins are unavoidable.
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