https://relevantmagazine.com/current/stopping-c*****e-c****e-is-a-part-of-following-jesus/

Genesis 1 says that God looked on the world He had made and called it good not once, not twice, but seven times. In Genesis 2, God commands His image-bearers to “serve and protect” creation (Genesis 2:15). When God is teaching the Israelites how to be His people after rescuing them from Egypt, He mandates that not only the people but the land that sustains them shall be respected (Leviticus 25:1-5).

Humans from the Humus: Genesis 2:4–15

Who are we humans? Answers have been given for as long as we have drawn breath. Some say we are souls trapped in bodies. Others that we are thinking mind hitched to extended matter. Or that we are nothing more than $27.63 worth of carbon, hydrogen, calcium, and the like.

This text insists that we humans are Earthy and earthly creatures. In a Hebrew pun the text states that we are ’adam from the ’adamah. We are Adam because we are made from the ’adamah, or arable Earth. God scoops up some soil and breathes into it his life-giving Spirit. We are animated Earth, Spirit-enlivened dirt. We are also, of course, made in God’s image. But this text reminds us that we image-bearers are Earthy. We are humble humans from the humus.

https://reflections.yale.edu/article/earthkeeping-and-bible

Furthermore, what are we supposed to do? What is our God-given human calling? This text insists that we humans from the humus are called to serve and protect the Earth. This is the t***slation of the last part of Genesis 2:15. God took the human Earth- creature and placed us in the garden to ’abad (to serve) and shamar (to protect) it. Just as it says on every Chicago police car: to serve and protect. Our calling is to be creation’s cops, serving and protecting this our earthly home so that it and we may flourish. Our God-given vocation is to bring about shalom — not only the absence of conflict but the flourishing of all things.