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• 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)

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• 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.