World is facing a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch

This is important, and I'm just putting this together in my head with the fact that I need to rework some teaching and learning materials for a course on parish mission. It's a report on a report: World is facing a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch. The main thing to get our heads round is this: "The Living Planet report calculates that humans are using 30% more resources than the Earth can replenish each year, which is leading to deforestation, degraded soils, polluted air and water, and dramatic declines in numbers of fish and other species. As a result, we are running up an ecological debt of $4tr (�2.5tr) to $4.5tr every year - double the estimated losses made by the world's financial institutions as a result of the credit crisis - say the report's authors, led by the conservation group WWF, formerly the World Wildlife Fund. The figure is based on a UN report which calculated the economic value of services provided by ecosystems"
And I am reminded that this issue, therefore, puts all our arguments about church governance and cultural change into a very different perspective. Our response as Christians and communities of faith needs to be analogous to the way that 'the Irish Saved Civilisation', albeit that we have to do it as a matter of intention. It will affect mission for the next few centuries (assuming we have them). After all, just think; what will apologetics look like if we've been part of the solution rather than blessed the behaviours that have caused the problem? For a comparison, think about the slave trade.