Do we have a moral obligation to conserve our natural resources?

Answer 1

yes, and a practical one. Industries who use up resources are very short-sighted, and often fail to realise that if they don't start conserving resources they'll go bankrupt. I think the history of Easter Island is demonstrative of this (the islanders cut down all the trees in order to build the statues found there. The person who cut down the last tree would have known it but still did it anyway. As there were no trees, it caused disaster - massive flooding and the damage it caused couldn't be repaired as there wasn't any wood). I think we might be going the same way.

Answer 2

Are natural resourses a a valuble commodity. They are being used and wasted at a faster rate each year as the population increases. Eventualy they will be no more. At what time everything will become digital and electronic. It will be a pain
since we will have to rely on the sun and use more money to
create electricity. Yes we have a obligation to conserve our natural energy. Wether a moral one I don't know. Inflation... when
our natural resources diminnish and then dissapear will be so
great as to cause a giant rift between rich and poor.

Answer 3

I don't know if it is a Moral Obligation - but I feel we do have an obligation to conserve our resources, the environment, animal and plant life.......we are only borrowing this planet, it isn't relaly ours!

Answer 4

We have no way of knowing, how long God has human existence planed on Earth. So it would seem logical to me ,we should preserve it for our off Springs. I hate to think what kind of environment , My Great Great grandchildren might have to survive in because of some destruction I have done. So yes we are in charge of the earth , we have a moral obligation to do the best we can. to preserve it.

Answer 5

I do believe we do, but this world is not our final destination and yet people are so controlled by material things that it drives away the very resources we need for survival, such as clean air and water, look at global warming, its just going to get worse, we have hardly any winter here, and don't see snow like we did when I was young, its only going to get worse by these pollutants being released in the air.

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

Yes and the best way to do that is to stop subsidizing the non-White population explosion via aid and trade. Billions of them will be eliminated in short order. Then we will have a Whiter brighter world and future with less pollution and stress on the planet and less ignorance, disease, crime and poverty. As our nations and the world darkens so does our future.

Answer 8

No one thinks that far ahead. I live in the middle of the desert. We have great underground aquifers here, but they won't last forever. So what do people do? The put in grass lawns (instead of traditional desert rock landscape) that have to be watered everyday. 50% of the water ends up running down the street.

Answer 9

Yes, I think it is a moral obligation. We owe it to future generations just as seriously as we owe healthy genes and a healthy home to our own children.

Answer 10

Yes, if humans are the only animals with the capability to do so, then we must take advantage and conserve it. I feel that we do not own the world, but that we must attend to it because it is a gift to us.