Earth is  hundreds of billions of year old and a set of plants and animals are found in different periods . Man is the latest creation of nature or God or some supernatural or natural power which remians to be defined.
In every continent where ever man arose first time and started to learn to use fire there was some kind of imagination of God . God of air , God of water, God of fire, even God for life , God for death Indian mythological theories even assume 33 koti or 330 million Gods ? (Perhaps that might be population of human kind on the earth at that time).
Religion came next to the God or religions invented their own supernatural powers whom they called as God .
I dont discuss religion and God and Science together lest I would end up blogging for the last time but my question is which one came first Man or God or Nature is the  mother of both.
I mean to say if we protect and worship nature we are protecting mankind and in a way serving the cause of humanity and our next generation.
We are serving God as well if we believe God created nature.
We have not inherited this earth but we are custodian of this earth for our next geneations.
Do we want our next generations to be there to worship our God which can only happen if our earth will survive.
Perhaps the correct answer may take some time to come.