Green Week for Latter-day Saints

In honor of Green Week, here are a few quotes:

Of the earth, we are asked to be stewards. Here are a few exerpts from an article by Dr. George Handley, Professor of Humanities at BYU:

". . . we learn that “it pleaseth God that he hath given all these things unto man; for unto this end were they made to be used, with judgment, not to excess, neither by extortion” (D&C 59:18-20). This ethic exists mainly because, as LDS prophets have consistently taught, no earthly possession truly belongs to us but to the Lord and we should therefore exercise care to use only what we need. The Lord requires the remainder to be consecrated and redistributed for the upliftment of the needy, and only in this way we can be assured that there is “enough and to spare” of nature’s resources (see D&C 104)."

"Christian doctrines of the millennium and the eventual death of the earth have caused many believers to view concerns of some environmentalists as frantic and unwarranted worries. While Mormonism believes in a literal end of the earth’s life, there is no LDS scripture that justifies inaction in the face of evil, even when such evil has been prophesied."

To mothers, Sister Julie Beck, General Relief Society President, advised: "Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world's goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all."

Live the Gospel, Care for the Earth.