The environment Lesson 47 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Christians believe the earth is God's creation, given to people to look after like stewards, who care for something that belongs to someone else; many other faiths and humanists also believe we must care for the earth. 1 The earth is warming, mainly because of human activity, and this harms people and nature, often those far away or not yet born. 2 Small habits add up: if a whole city reduces, reuses and recycles, the sea gets less plastic and the air gets cleaner. 3 Some questions are hard, like who should pay to fix the damage; a good answer weighs fairness, who caused the harm and who is able to help. 4 For a child today this means switching off lights, walking when you can, sharing things fairly and speaking up for nature politely and bravely. 5 Christians believe the earth is God's creation and that people are its stewards, called to look after it. 6 Many other faiths and humanists also believe we have a duty to care for the earth. 7 The earth is warming mainly because of human activity, such as burning coal, oil and gas. 8 Climate change harms both people and nature, including people far away and people in the future. 9 The three Rs are reduce (use less), reuse (use things again) and recycle (turn old materials into new things). 10 Reducing usually helps most, because what is never made never needs to be thrown away. 11 Plastic rubbish in the sea harms sea creatures, which can swallow it or get trapped in it. 12 Future generations are the people who will live after us; fairness includes not using up what they will need. 13 Whether rich countries that polluted more should pay to help poorer countries is a disputed question. 14 The tragedy of the commons is when everyone uses a shared thing for themselves until it is ruined for all. 15 Shared things need shared rules, so that everyone can keep using them. 16 Walking or cycling instead of taking the car takes longer but harms the air and climate less. 17 Young people such as Greta Thunberg, a Swedish girl who missed school on Fridays to protest, have spoken up about the environment; people disagree about which ways of protesting are right. ← previous Animalsnext → Lifeboat choices↑ back to Religion ethics This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/