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If reason is not a strong enough force to drive stewardship then religion must take up the task.
I do not really know how to implement the idea that religion is our only vehicle that can transport the necessity of stewardship to the people.
What do all religions have in common? For religion to do this job we must find some way in which all religions embrace this as a common accepted “gut feeling”. If all religions do now have stewardship as part of their dogma then it apparently has little practical impact. The concept of stewardship must be wedded to a love of god, to anybody’s god. It must be inherent in what God wants me to do.
If stewardship is already part of religion then capitalism with its private property basic concept must have driven the stewardship from the scene.
Can you think of a catalyst that could cause all religions to passionately embrace the concept of stewardship? I suspect that this is the only way that stewardship can become part of most people’s common sense of responsibility.
I think that if we had the image of God embracing the planet earth while standing guard over the gates of heaven and checking a list of who has been good or bad about stewardship then we might have a means to instill this concept deeply in the mind of all religious people and thus of most of the people on the planet.
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