Exploring Our Responsibility for Earth’s Resources: Shaping an Eco-Ethicological Approach for Discussion

[E]very sprout and leaf says something meaningful, every stone whispers some hidden message in the silence – every creation sings its song. – Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook 2 I. Introduction: Building Blocks We begin our journey toward an understanding of cosmology and our responsibility for the Earth, supported by ethics mined from Scripture. Since it is God who put this world in motion, tikkun olam (repair of the world) would appear to be his ultimate responsibility. But it would be crass on our part to default by placing the whole onus on God to care for this real estate that he has