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Thomas O.  Nass’ Paraphrase and Enhancement of W.C. Lowdermilk ,
U.S. Dept of Agriculture 1948, from "Conquest of the Land Through
7,000 Years"

This Holy Earth

Thou shall inherit this Holy Earth as a Faithful Steward,
respecting, protecting  and conserving its Environment, its
Resources and its Productivity for future generations.

Thou shall safeguard its Fields from erosion; its Soils and
sub-Surface from Chemical Saturation; its Waters, its Ground
Waters and its Air from Pollution and over-heating.  Its Oceans
from over fishing; its Forests from desolation; its Mineral
Resources from depletion; its Hills from overgrazing by thy herds
and  its Creatures from extinction, so that thy descendants may
enjoy its abundance as once did thee.

All Nations do share in the Ownership of this Holy Earth.  Ergo,
if any Nation or its leaders should fail in the responsibilities
of their Stewardship, then all of thy Crop land shall become
sterile ground with wasting gullies; thy waters unfit to drink; 
thy air too thick to breath; the meat of thy herds and thy flocks,
as the spawn of  thy waters and thy oceans, unfit to eat.  If any
of the above should come to pass, then thy descendants shall
gradually diminish in their number and eventually depart from off
the face of this Holy Earth.   Why? Because thy insatiable greed
and thy ignorance of thy ignorance shall have decreed it so.

Thomas O.  Nass, Sciline Products
www.sciline.com