This is paraphrased from Revelation 21:1-7
"21:1	And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.  
 21:2	And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  
 21:3	And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.  
 21:4	And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.  
 21:5	And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.  
 21:6	And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.  
 21:7	He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.  "

Behold, I make all things new. Revelation 21:5
There is a close, undeniable and inseparable relationship between the visible world and the spiritual reality. Genesis 1:1 says, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. "  God existed before heaven and earth, before the beginning we learn here.
Colossians  1:16-17;  "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:  And he is before all things, and by him all things consist."
For man to exist, God needed to create him, and man needs God continuously, to sustain him. God is the essence of man. The definition of "essence" is, "the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract that determines its character" another definition of essence, is "a property or group of properties of something without which it would not exist or be what it is". Now, the natural man- that's what we come into this world as, we live and walk by sight. 
We think that it is quite normal to walk by sight, but this is what we read about that; 
"God requires that we confess our sins and humble our hearts before Him; but at the same time we should have confidence in Him as a tender Father, who will not forsake those who put their trust in Him. Many of us walk by sight and not by faith. We believe the things that are seen but do not appreciate the precious promises given us in God's Word; and yet we cannot dishonor God more decidedly than by showing that we distrust what He says and question whether the Lord is in earnest with us or is deceiving us. "{Counsels for the Church 47.2}
We tend to think of the spiritual world as being a separate entity from the material world, but  the visible world would not have even come into existence without the spiritual, and the visible world continues to require the support of the spiritual world. 
Everything that comes from the hand of a loving and perfect God, can only be full of goodness and perfection; this is how things  were, when they came from the hand of God, while they were yet untainted by sin. And this is the hope of the Christian, that God's will, will be done on earth, that God's will for man will be perfected on earth, as God's will is manifested in heaven. Eventually the time will come for God to restore all things, and our feeble minds and bodies will be remade according to His good pleasure. This is the blessed hope we hold onto. 
Looking around us, we see the need for rebirth and regeneration. As it says in Romans 8:22,  "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." Manuscript Releases vol 7 p 421.  "The curse because of sin causes the earth to groan under the inhabitants thereof, and every living thing is subject to disease and death."  
Of our own power, we can no sooner bring about positive change in the world according to God's plans, then we can stop something bad from happening, by looking away from it. Unless the spirit of God guides our minds  and our hearts  and our hands, our efforts tend to be misguided. ""All our righteousness are as filthy rags." Isaiah 64:6. Everything that we of ourselves can do is defiled by sin." {COL 311}
"We should ever keep in mind that unseen agencies are at work, both evil and good, to take the control of the mind. They act with unseen yet effectual power. Good angels are ministering spirits, exerting a heavenly influence upon heart and mind; while the great adversary of souls, the devil, and his angels are continually laboring to accomplish our destruction. . . .  
     While we should be keenly alive to our exposure to the assaults of unseen and invisible foes, we are to be sure that they cannot harm us without gaining our consent. " {AH 405}  
(Slides of environmental disasters)
Here is a long list of environmental disasters, and there are links to other disasters, such as oil spills, and for each of them there is a story, that causes me to reflect on how little we know about the interaction, the interdependence of living things and the environment, and of the delicate balance of those interactions; and sometimes, I simply see man's greed and short- sightness in doing what's best for our fragile little planet and for our fellow travelers. It's like our bodies- we know how to treat them better than we do, and our bodies get abused a lot and keep on going, but sometimes our bodies give out on us.
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The following articles were written by scientists who are concerned with the the direction they see this world headed. Being knowledgeable and in tune with the vast cycle of life, they see ominous signs of trouble. If you're going down the road, and you hear your tire thumping and your wheel pulling to one side, or if you see the animals in your neighborhood fleeing, or acting strangely, you might think fire, or impending earthquake. 
(Headlines of dire predictions)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature
Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten the collapse of nature'. This article says that the world's insects are headed to extinction; and that will lead to the end of nature's ecosystems. At the rate that the total mass of insects is decreasing, the insects could disappear in 100 years. Their total mass is 17 times as great as humans, and they are essential for all ecosystems, serving as food at the base of the food chain, and working as pollinators and predators of pests, and as recycling workers. When those predatory insects are lost, it is unknown how we will manage against the surviving parasites that will proliferate.
The use of pesticides, the loss of natural habitat, and climate change are big factors. Without insects, the birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish and other creatures higher up in the food chain cannot survive. There is much that we do not know about the work of many insect species.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/12/what-is-biodiversity-and-why-does-it-matter-to-us
There's this article, What is biodiversity and why does it matter to us? Biodiversity is about the interdependence of all of Earth's life forms and the natural world. It says "without biodiversity, there is no future for humanity." The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, they all rely on biodiversity.
Every ecosystem reveals innumerable interactions that function harmoniously together, between living things and their environment. For example;
[Slide] coral reefs and mangrove trees help protect from cyclones and tsunamis.
[slide] Trees help absorb air pollution.
[slide] tortoises and spider monkeys help spread seeds for trees that help clean the air
A cancer fighting medication was synthesized from a fungus that grows on the fur of sloths.
Financially, the loss of biodiversity cost Europe 3% of its gross domestic product.
We have catalogued about 1.7 million species of life forms, but there may still be as many as 100 million different species, and perhaps billions of distinct organisms, if we were to examine differences on the genetic level, and also include bacteria and viruses. 90% of food comes from the soil, and a spoon of soil contains up to 50,000 different kinds of bacteria.
Since 1970, the number of animals living on earth has been cut by 1/2. This represents the loss of billions of animal populations, "representing a 'frightening assault on the foundations of human civilisation'". unquote
We are overfishing the oceans, so that the harvest has been declining for the past 23 years. 
In the past 25 years in Germany, 75% of flying insects were lost.
So there are many reasons why losing our biodiversity is a bad idea. For selfish, short sighted reasons we pursue this course. To me, this is the face of sin, another reminder of our predicament and a reminder of our need to look outside of ourselves for real solutions.
What has happened?
I have developed a greater respect and regard for the animals that God has placed alongside us, for our good and to His glory. 
To make space for humans, we take over wildlife areas to building housing, farms, and industry. Civilization produces pollutants that have for one thing, seriously hurt orca whales and dolphins. The amphibians have been very hard hit, due to a fungus probably spread by the pet trade. 
[slide] global shipping has spread highly damaging species, especially rats.
[slides] Look at the exotic pets you can buy;
Fennec fox    Pygmy goat    Wallaby    Capybara    Piranha    Serval    Squirrel monkey    Anteater   Sugar glider    Coati    Hedgehog    Marmoset
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https://www.bornfreeusa.org/campaigns/animals-in-captivity/the-dangers-of-keeping-exotic-pets/
Exotic animals such as lions, bears, reptiles, primates belong in their natural habitats. These  are essentially wild animals, they can be dangerous, and they do not fully adjust to  captivity. The American Veterinary Medical Association, the (USDA), and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are opposed to people keeping certain animals. 
The average  person cannot provide for the special care, housing, diet and maintenance required, and the animals suffer. They pose safety and health risks to humans in the household, and to the community if they are inappropriately released to the outdoors.
These animals are not used to being in small, barren enclosures, and are also subjected to being chained, or are beaten so they will behave to meet the owner's  expectations, or are declawed or have their teeth removed so they will be more manageable.
When the owner realizes they cannot care for their pet, they may turn to local zoos; but due to the numbers of such unwanted pets, many of the animals are put out of their misery, or released and left to fend for themselves in the environment, or they may continue to live in deplorable conditions. 
The exotic pet trade is big business. There are more than a thousand sites on the Internet, and they are not careful to advise potential buyers of the difficulties, and physical and psychological needs of the animals. 
Over a 7 year period, 52 people reported being bitten by macaque monkeys, a large percentage of which carry the Herpes B virus which is often fatal to humans. There are 93,000 cases of salmonella from reptiles each year in the US, and death can result in the young or elderly or immunnocompromised. Annually there are 7,000 venomous snake bites with 15 fatalities in the US, but it is not known how many were from pets. Plus, there have been several strangulations from snakes.
There will come a time when " The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.  
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.  
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.  
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. " Isaiah 11:6-9
There will come a time when we can safely associate with all of God's creations and we will appreciate them for what they are; samples of God's creative power, and tokens of his majesty, and regard for us. 
"As the earth came forth from the hand of its Maker, it was exceedingly beautiful. Its surface was diversified with mountains, hills, and plains, interspersed with noble rivers and lovely lakes; but the hills and mountains were not abrupt and rugged, abounding in terrific steeps and frightful chasms, as they now do; the sharp, ragged edges of earth's rocky framework were  buried beneath the fruitful soil, which everywhere produced a luxuriant growth of verdure. There were no loathsome swamps or barren deserts. Graceful shrubs and delicate flowers greeted the eye at every turn. The heights were crowned with trees more majestic than any that now exist. The air, untainted by foul miasma, was clear and healthful. The entire landscape outvied in beauty the decorated grounds of the proudest palace. The angelic host viewed the scene with delight, and rejoiced at the wonderful works of God.  
     After the earth with its teeming animal and vegetable life had been called into existence, man, the crowning work of the Creator, and the one for whom the beautiful earth had been fitted up, was brought upon the stage of action. To him was given dominion over all that his eye could behold" {Patriarch and Prophets 44}
God's creation is not for us to possess or to control, but to manage and take care of and to appreciate.
"He was placed, as God's representative, over the lower orders of being. They cannot understand or acknowledge the sovereignty of God, yet they were made capable of loving and serving man. The psalmist says, "Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet: . . . the beasts of the field; the fowl of the air, . . . and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas." Psalm 8:6-8.  {PP 45.1} 
We are familiar with the bond that can exist between a dog and his master, or a lion cub when he became fully grown, and his master; or an elephant and his master.
These "wild" animals were taken away from their native environments, so they are no longer able to fulfill their roles in their particular ecosystems in the great web of life, of we lack so much wisdom and understanding.
And then there's the matter of excesses. In westernized countries, we seek to earn more and to own more and to do more, and to go more places, in bigger and more extravagant ways, which all goes to tax the earth's resources. As we spend money because we have it, yes we are providing jobs for the service sectors of society, that is true, but it still seems out of balance with the other parts of the world, that have to 'make do' with less, and who consume less of the world's resources.
[slide] Let's start with $100 for the whole world.
1% of the population controls 48% of the wealth, or $48 for that 1%. 
So $52 is left for /99 people= $.525252 per person.
48/.52525252= 91x. The 1% owns 91x as much as the have- nots.
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The 80 richest people control as much as half the world's wealth, or 3.5 billion people.
So if there's $7,000,000 to go around the world,
$3,500,000,000/80= $43,750,000 for each of the rich folks, and  $3,500,000,000/7,000,000,000 gives everyone else $.50 each.   So the 80 rich folks have $43,750,000 / $.50, or 87,500,000 x as much as everyone else in the world.
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Here are a couple of pictures that I found from Googling 'average American home' I'm showing them just to illustrate the point that ...
you can only eat so much, and you only need to wear so much to keep you warm, and you only need so much of a roof and walls to keep the rain and snow and cold from coming in... so I don't know why the very rich need to have so much. 
But in fairness I should say that if I were on the other side of the equation, I would probably be looking at things much differently, and so it's a good thing that I'm not on that side of the equation. 
Speaking things from the world's  perspective, God must have loved the common man, because he made so many of them. But seriously, here in America, we often have our needs met, and it is to help relieve the needs and sufferering of our neighbors, that we have been entrusted with goods. God wants to see with what regard we consider the needs of our fellow man.
https://www.connect4climate.org/infographics/true-environmental-cost-eating-meat
The True Environmental Cost of Eating Meat
[slides of meat production]
This is not to mention the health cost of meat consumption. Here are some vegan athletes;
[slides of vegan athletes]
[SLIDES of planet Earth*] 
This beautiful jewel, created by God to sustain us and for our enjoyment and appreciation of his Majesty and love towards us. What great concern he must have for us to design a self-contained ecosystem, flying through space, with circulating air and heat, recurring sunshine and darkness, with temperature regulation that supports various forms of life.
Life-sustaining water is refreshed and distilled and then it is returned to the earth. Water sustains life in its myriad forms, great and small.
As plants and animals die, they are recycled by scavengers, and eventually broken down further by mold and bacteria becoming the raw materials for new life.
Earth was created to meet man's needs and for his benefit, to enjoy and admire the goodness and glory of God. And to work with the land so that it would be productive and to learn lessons for his good. And to enjoy the fruits of his labors and to be at peace with his God. 
"Why Use Secondhand Food?                                             Letter 72, 1896 
     703. The diet of the animals is vegetables and grains. Must the vegetables be animalized, must they be incorporated into the system of animals, before we get them? Must we obtain our vegetable diet by eating the flesh of dead creatures? God provided fruit in its natural state for our first parents. He gave to Adam charge of the garden, to dress it, and to care for it, saying, "To you it shall be for meat." One animal was not to destroy another animal for food.  {CD 396.2}                                       (1905) M.H. 313  
     704. Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct by eating the food that God provided for our use!  {CD 396.3}"
CDF 394
"699. Where plenty of good milk and fruit can be obtained there is rarely any excuse for eating animal food; it is not necessary to take the life of any of God's creatures to supply our ordinary needs. In certain cases of illness or exhaustion it may be thought best to use some meat, but great care should be taken to secure the flesh of healthy animals. It has come to be a very serious question whether it is safe to use flesh food at all in this age of the world. It would be better never to eat meat than to use the flesh of animals that are not healthy. When I could not obtain the food I needed, I have sometimes eaten a little meat; but I am becoming more and more afraid of it. 
     [ELLEN G. WHITE AT TIMES COMPELLED TO EAT A LITTLE MEAT-- APPENDIX I:10]  {CD 394.2}"
Counsels on diet and foods 292
"There needs to be presented to all students and physicians, and by them to others, that the whole animal creation is more or less diseased. Diseased meat is not rare, but common. Every phase of disease is brought into the human system through subsisting upon the flesh of dead animals. The feebleness and weakness in consequence of a change from a meat diet will soon be overcome, and physicians ought to understand that they should not make the stimulus of meat eating essential for health and strength. All who leave it alone intelligently, after becoming accustomed to the change, will have health of sinews and muscles.  {CD 292.4}"
The natural man acknowledges God hardly at all. Whether the natural man recognizes it or not, "God still bears long with the wicked. He still surrounds them with temporal blessings. It is his hand that provides the bounties upon their tables. He gives them raiment and dwellings. There are rich fields for the harvest; there are flocks and herds, gold and silver, friends and health. Let God but remove his providential care, and what want, desolation, and inexpressible wretchedness would result! A blight would come upon the fields, every creature that ministers to our comfort would perish, and man himself would be swept from the earth as by a devouring plague. And yet men enjoy God's blessings, and, like the soulless beasts, return to him no grateful acknowledgment. They feel secure in their possessions, when a word, a breath, the slightest accident, might deprive them of their earthly all. No bounty or blessing can men claim as their own. All are committed to us as a trust, which, if not wisely improved, God will remove." {Signs of the Times Jan 12, 1882}
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https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/the-great-sparrow-campaign-was-the-start-of-the-greatest-mass
History is littered with environmental disasters, but few compare to the one in 1958 in China. That was the year Mao Zedong, decided that his country could do without sparrows. The impact of this ill-conceived decision — along with many other policies he put in place — caused a domino effect of destruction. Three years later, as many as 45 million people were dead.
Zedong initiated what he called the Great Leap Forward, a massive social and economic campaign that, among many other things, turned farming into a collective, state-sponsored activity. Private farming was banned as China changed into a communist system.
One of Zedong's first actions after collectivizing agriculture was apparently intended to protect the farms. Sparrows, he was told, ate a lot of grain seeds, so Zedong ordered the people to kill all the sparrows. During the Great Sparrow Campaign, hundreds of millions of sparrows were killed, mostly because people chased them until the birds were so tired that they fell out of the sky. (The campaign was part of the broader Four Pests Campaign, which also targeted rats, flies and mosquitoes — all with the aim of improving human hygiene.)
The problem with the Great Sparrow Campaign became evident in 1960. The sparrows, it seemed, didn't only eat grain seeds. They also ate insects. With no birds to control them, insect populations boomed. Locusts, in particular, swarmed over the country, eating everything they could find — including crops intended for human consumption. People, on the other hand, quickly ran out of things to eat, and millions starved. Some scholars estimate that the fatalities were as high as 45 or even 78 million. Chinese journalist Yang Jisheng, who chronicled the famine in his book "Tombstone," estimates the deaths at 36 million people. 
But the people didn't go down quickly or easily. "Documents report several thousand cases where people ate other people," Yang told NPR in 2012. "Parents ate their own kids. Kids ate their own parents." The behavior was so awful — with thousands of people murdered for food or for speaking out against the government — that the topic of what has become known as the Great Famine remains taboo in China more than 50 years later.
Perhaps the most tragic aspect is that most of those deaths were unnecessary. Although the fields were empty, massive grain warehouses held enough food to feed the entire country — but the government never released it.
A series of tragedies
The deaths of the sparrows were not the only contributing factor to the famine, murders and deaths. For one thing, there was a massive drought in 1960. For another, the central government instituted new agricultural practices that proved to be complete failures. At the heart of it, the real cause was the Communist government, which — either as policy or by the selfish act of various officials — kept the grain from being delivered to those in need and covered up the problem. They also ruthlessly, sadistically and brutally detained, beat and hunted down anyone who appeared to question the situation.
China has continuously played down the causes and effects of the Great Famine, which is still officially known as the "Three Years of Difficult Period" or "Three Years of Natural Disasters." Yang told The Guardian that the full truth may never come out in mainland China. "Because the party has been improving and society has improved and everything is better, it's hard for people to believe the brutality of that time."
But the story is leaking out. Yang told NPR that the book has been counterfeited and the e-book pirated in China, something he doesn't care about. "Our history is all fabricated. It's been covered up. If a country can't face its own history, then it has no future," he said.
To me, this is a reminder of yet another situation beyond  man's wisdom to comprehend, much less to fix. 
Whatever our problems, whether financial, or health, or social, or racial, they are all, essentially spiritual problems. That is the only way that anything gets done according to God's providence, and that is all that matters. Everything else will pass away. 
Let us pray for our world leaders, for it is God who has allowed to be in power. And let us pray to be faithful to the sphere of influence to which each of us has been called.
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Psalm 148:13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory [is] above the earth and heaven.