>>"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

This nasty, ignorant and downright evil little tract absolves those with less integrity and gumption than normal of the responsibility of caring for the earth: "God says it was alright". Of course, the fact we're all brought up and raised largely as Christians/Muslims/Jews of some sort means that this point of view is entrenched in our culture; that has nothing to do with science.<<<


A lot of Christian today take this as both a blessing and a responsibility to care for the planet and its creatures. If we have "dominion" over for instance blue whales, if they go extinct, it is on us.