Genesis 9:7

Yahweh gave humans the earth to steward, rule and make a living off of, Here is that verse from my New American Bible: "Be fertile, then, and multiply, abound on earth and subdue it." This short but powerful exhortation is rich with implications. Humans are valuable to God, so they are worthy of being fertile and expanding across the globe. That view is humanistic and supra-humanistic, highlighting human worth and value. It gives men and women the right to rule the earth, but, as Jordan Peterson is wont to remind us, with rights go great responsibility. To rape, pillage, pollute, cause extinction to thousands of plants and animals, to be cruel to any living creature, none of these behaviors are consistent with a firm but loving steward authorized by Yahweh to run this world. Run it yes, but gut, annihilate and waste are not moral behaviors, because God does not comport Deself this way. Because the Mother and Father are ethical beings, they demand ethical behavior from human beings. To subdue the earth is not to wipe out ecosystems, but to build our urban wonderland without eradicating or invading all ecosystems. There must be a balance, and I think that God would have meant for us to understand the need to restrict our aggression towards the natural world, or be punished by God for immoral invasion, exploitation, violence and rapacity against the natural world and all of its life forms. Here is that verse from my Holy Bible (KJV): "And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein." Yahweh would protest and decry against the ecoterrorist, anti-humanist meme that humans are a curse plague upon this earth, better to have never been born, or at least few in number and impact upon Gaia.