With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

According to Kara Buckley in the New York Times, a growing number of tiny forests are appearing across urban areas in the U.S.

In addition to absorbing carbon dioxide, reducing water runoff and providing homes for wildlife,

tiny forests can help lower temperatures and places where pavement, building and concrete services absorb and retain heat from the sun.

The concept was pioneered by a Japanese ecologist, and it proves that people are really the best stewards of nature.

But the world needs is not some return to a vast unspoiled wilderness by massively reducing the human population as so many suggest.

Instead, it's creating space for people to use and employ their ingenuity resources and innovation to increase the fruitfulness of creation.

Our screens and concrete jungles often disconnect us from God's creation, while our bad ideas about nature and the environment treat humans as if it's its biggest problem.

But humans were created to care for the rest of creation. In fact, it's only humans that can.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.