‘Why would God trust us with a new earth if we have failed to look after the old one?’

Veronica Zundel explores the challenge to consider the environmental and economic impact of the way we live

This morning as I had my shower I was listening to Radio 4 (it’s something that hit me about the age of 30) and specifically a programme about how the universe began, according to the current scientific understanding (apologies to those who think Genesis 1-2 explains everything). I didn’t catch or understand everything, but at one point a cosmologist was talking about a graph which portrayed something to do with the Big Bang and everything that exists coming out of nothing at all. He said that he can never speak publicly on this graph because every time he sees it his eyes fill with tears, he finds it so moving.