If everyone on Earth believed?

Question

in reincarnation, would we take good care of our planet?
Many people, like a couple of billion, seem to view Earth as a pit stop on the way to a better place. If we thought that we would return would we try to keep it nice for our arrival?
I am not asking is reincarnation true. I am asking if it were true would the environmental impact we make on our planet be as biologically devastating, as it is now.

or, if every one who lived believed in reincarnation, true or not.

Answer 1

Well, I guess it would all depend on what each of us would come back as. If I were to come back as a cow it really wouldn't matter much what condition the earth is in if all I do all day long is chew the cud and crap in my master's field.

Sounds like a bunch of hokey, new-age, mumbo-jumbo, to me.

Answer 2

Very interesting. I would hope that we would take better care of it. I don't think it is really up to reincarnation, how about our children and grand children? Do we want to keep destroying our resources for future generations? The government must impose strict penalties to large corporate companies who rape the earth. When money is in question people either look the other way or start to make improvements.

Answer 3

You don't have to go as far as reincarnation. People know that by polluting the earth today we aren't goig to have as many trees or as much clean water as we do, even ten years from now. People continue to pollute anyway. Forget about other people. Are YOU willing to give up your PC, air-conditioning, Wal-Mart, your cell-phone and a million other things that did not exist as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, so that the world would be less polluted?

Answer 4

lipsR4kids, how very open-minded of you to refer to a religion held by over 1 billion people as being imaginary. Hindu's thankfully do not view christianity with such callusness. In fact believing and worshiping in christian saints is very common amongst Hindus.
But to answer the question asked. I think that if everyone believed in reincarnation (which I do) then we humans would take far better care of Mother Nature.

Answer 5

I get your point, it's a good question. But take another angle, that's more 'real world' and doesn't need 'reincarnation' to 'make it work'.

It's two thoughts. Do people who have children (and grandchildren) worry more and care more about the future of the world?

And if we lived longer, if we knew we'd live longer, would we care more?

So the best question to ask someone who is in charge of anything is: "Do you have children, and how long do you expect to live?" It could get interesting....

Answer 6

This is a very interesting question. If everyone on earth believed in reincarnation, the world would be a better place. People will be cautious in their dealings. There will be that urge to maintain sanity, prepare for oneself a better environment for ones second coming. Looting of government coffers will definitely be put to check. There will be the desire to make arrangements to right every wrong one has committed and make adequate preparations for ones next coming. It is very natural that each one of us would want to improve on our past life.

Answer 7

Probably the best question I have ever seen here on Yahoo answers! The problem is that many powerful goverments that make trillion through production that uses our planet wouldnt care about it! They would still go on polluting the planet! Look at Buddishm countries, they have kept there temples and lifestyles free but even they are now beginning to see the BENEFITS if you can call it that of a life with sacrifice! So what I am trying to say is that it probably wouldnt work! Look at Christians! They are deeply deeply devoted to God but you see bent ministers every where abusing young girls! Excellent question!

Answer 8

It's hard to say, since much of what is destroying our planet are things of convenience to us. Cars, prepacked meals, plastics (what would we do without plastic?), and factories to expedite the making of all these things.

I don't think that we would have been forward thinking enough to realize all the future impacts of the Industrial Revolution, and stop it so we'd have a better earth. I'd go so far as to say that mankind values progress more than any spiritual belief,

Answer 9

I think it's a nice thought and I'd like to believe that. I think it has been proven to be true. But others have proved it not to be true. Someone once said to me, why would God have to recycle people? But if it's true it's a nice thing to think about perhaps coming back, for a while to see how things have changed. It would also be nice to travel back in time too.

Answer 10

that could be a no longer difficulty-free theory to appreciate, as is the theory of eternity, yet it is the way I see it in an extremely simplified style. God says we've loose determination, inspite of the indisputable fact that in the time of Psalms it says all of our days have been written in the previous we've been born. God is familiar with all issues, his plan has been written out in prophecies previous to time so all of us comprehend that plan strikes in a forward course and there is not any time with him....he's the comparable the day previous, at present and the following day. So i like to think of of it like observing a action picture for the 1st time....you do no longer comprehend contained in direction of the plots and twists what's going to take place until it gets to the tip. as quickly as you comprehend the way it ends, you could watch it over and get caught up in it returned, however the finishing will stay the comparable. i think of it is resembling that.