User:Wavelength/About Earth's environment/Contrasts


 * Ecological extremism versus economic prosperity
 * (ecological extremism versus economic prosperity)


 * Economic extremism versus ecological prosperity
 * (economic extremism versus ecological prosperity)


 * Adapting natural systems to accommodate human ambitions
 * (adapting natural systems to accommodate human ambitions)


 * Adapting human ambitions to accommodate natural systems
 * (adapting human ambitions to accommodate natural systems)


 * Destroying vital ecosystems and developing toxic industries
 * (destroying vital ecosystems and developing toxic industries)


 * Destroying toxic industries and developing vital ecosystems
 * (destroying toxic industries and developing vital ecosystems)


 * Sellers, including global corporations, and profits, with environmental costs
 * (sellers, including global corporations, and profits, with environmental costs)


 * Buyers, including individual consumers, and bargains, with environmental costs
 * (buyers, including individual consumers, and bargains, with environmental costs)


 * Take only pictures.
 * Leave only footprints.


 * Dad, see what I did with my science kit.
 * Son, see what you did to our home.


 * Midas touch
 * Midas curse


 * Humans have loved material riches so much that they have plundered their only life-sustaining planet, so every natural resource exploited by them does not flourish but suffers environmental degradation.
 * For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.