Are there parts of the Bible that promote environmentalism?

I always assumed that Genesis implied this. When god said that man had dominion over the earth and everything on it, and that god was entrusting man with his animals and herbs, that it would probably be disrespectful to just trash them.

Buuuut… it doesn’t explicitly say that there.

Do a search for “Stewardship.” It’s basically an antecedent for manifest destiny. Yet another in a long line of biblical/thological self-contradictions.

Yes. And you can even get a green-letter Bible, where the parts that speak to environmentalism are in green ink.

http://greenletterbible.com/

That is awesome laureth, thanks.

Anybody know a particularly persuasive passage?

http://www.gotquestions.org/environmentalism-Christian.html

bummer.

The closest I could find is this:
“Give birth to many. Grow in number. Fill the earth and rule over it. Rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth” (Genesis 1:26–28 NLV)

So I guess it just depends on how compassionately we decide to rule.

Does the Bible ever touch on extinctions? If we had no Polar Bears to rule over?

My friend runs an Orthodox Jewish environmentalist organization called Canfei Nesharim. They have some religious education materials (from a traditional Jewish perspective).
http://www.canfeinesharim.org/

Thanks jill, I saw some great articles in there, I hope your friend keeps on doing good : )

@tonedef: According to Ann Coulter, that passage is explicit permission for man to lay waste to everything as he sees fit; and, as a christian, she believes this is good.