have become convinced that such actions are necessary for the sustaining and flourishing of human life. The same may be said of much of our response to “environmental” crises. But if we truly understand our creatureliness, then we will care for that which is not human because we recognize in all things their createdness. We care for all things because they have their being and their existence by virtue of their telos in creation as it is redeemed for the new creation. They are not incidental to human