--- title: The environment — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The environment», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Christians believe the earth is God's creation, given to people to look after like stewards, who care for something that belongs to someone else; --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / The environment # The environment Lesson 47 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/0/) — Christians believe the earth is God's creation, given to people to look after like stewards, who care for something that belongs to someone else; many other faiths and humanists also believe we must care for the earth. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/1/) — The earth is warming, mainly because of human activity, and this harms people and nature, often those far away or not yet born. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/2/) — Small habits add up: if a whole city reduces, reuses and recycles, the sea gets less plastic and the air gets cleaner. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/3/) — Some questions are hard, like who should pay to fix the damage; a good answer weighs fairness, who caused the harm and who is able to help. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/4/) — For a child today this means switching off lights, walking when you can, sharing things fairly and speaking up for nature politely and bravely. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/5/) — Christians believe the earth is God's creation and that people are its stewards, called to look after it. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/6/) — Many other faiths and humanists also believe we have a duty to care for the earth. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/7/) — The earth is warming mainly because of human activity, such as burning coal, oil and gas. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/8/) — Climate change harms both people and nature, including people far away and people in the future. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/9/) — The three Rs are reduce (use less), reuse (use things again) and recycle (turn old materials into new things). - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/10/) — Reducing usually helps most, because what is never made never needs to be thrown away. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/11/) — Plastic rubbish in the sea harms sea creatures, which can swallow it or get trapped in it. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/12/) — Future generations are the people who will live after us; fairness includes not using up what they will need. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/13/) — Whether rich countries that polluted more should pay to help poorer countries is a disputed question. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/14/) — The tragedy of the commons is when everyone uses a shared thing for themselves until it is ruined for all. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/15/) — Shared things need shared rules, so that everyone can keep using them. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/16/) — Walking or cycling instead of taking the car takes longer but harms the air and climate less. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/17/) — Young people such as Greta Thunberg, a Swedish girl who missed school on Fridays to protest, have spoken up about the environment; people disagree about which ways of protesting are right. - ← previous: [Animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/46-animals/) - next →: [Lifeboat choices](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)