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The stewardship of nature which was their heritage is something we must recapture before all that we were given by the Almighty is lost, never to be recaptured, never ever again. The industrialization that accompanied the march of civilization too often exploited and wasted much of the world's natural resources. In 200 years, the process of industrialization laid waste most of the earth's trees and is presently on its way to destroying the rain forests that have from the beginning of time replenished the planet's oxygen supply. We still dump trash into our oceans, turn major rivers into sewers, and transform lakes into huge pools of smells chemicals that fish die in and birds avoid.

Communism was especially harsh on the environment. Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe are now faced with the monumental task of cleaning up the ecological disasters created by communism's forced march toward industrialization. And though democratic capitalism has had a better track record on the environment in the last half of the 20th Century, the story of exploitation and neglect from 1750 to 1950 was not reflective of the stewardship a land inhabited by a freedom-loving people should have demanded.

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