Environmental and Medical Issues
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- Environment and Medical Issues
- Christian Attitudes to Transplant Surgery
- Do not accept if from a dead person = 'playing God'
- Oppose organs being bought from poor people as the Bible says that the poor should not be exploited.
- Ignores sanctity of life
- All other non religious arguments
- Most Christians are for transplant surgery as it is the most loving thing to do.
- Transplant surgery
- This is using organs from one person to replace defectives organs in another.
- Expensive and needs a lot of skill for very few people
- Encourages sale of LEDCs (poor people sell their organs to richer people in the West)
- Diverts resources from prevention of other vital diseases
- Infertility Treatments
- Infertility= the inability to have children naturally.
- Concerns about infertility treatments
- The psychological effect on the surrogate mother
- Children not knowing genetic parents
- High cost
- Natural resources
- =naturally occurring materials used by humans.
- Non-renewable = coal, fuel, metals, etc...
- Most scarce, and we are very reliant on them
- Renewable = wind power, wave power, etc...
- Often wasted and misused
- Has serious long term effects on the environment
- Solutions = make use of renewable sources. Recycle. Walk.
- Pollution
- Waste /Water/Land/Air
- Solution =Less packaging -Government action- Renewable sources-Fairtrade + local products
- Global Warming
- =the increase of temperature in the earths atmosphere
- Causes - car emissions/air travel/fossil fuels/deforestation
- Consequences- melting ice caps/droughts/floods
- Religious Teachings about the environment
- Christians
- Gods stewards
- Have a responsibility to God to look after his earth
- The world is a gift form God so we should take care of it and leave it the way it was when he gave it to us
- Judged on their behaviour as stewards
- Reduce pollution and preserve resources
- Stewardship= looking after something so that it can be passed onto the next eneration
- Gods stewards
- Muslims
- They are God's Khalifah
- Quran = balance in the environment. Disrespecting the earth upsets this balance.
- Tawhid = unity in creation
- Judgement Day = will be judged also on how they treat the environmnet
- Christians
- Christian Attitudes to Transplant Surgery
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