Have dominion.  Over five categories.  Fish, fowl, cattle, earth, and creeping things.

But these five  categories hold an even broader responsibility.

If we are responsible for fish, we are also responsible for the water they live in.  To keep it clean, pure, and uncontaminated.  We've failed.

If we are responsible for birds, we are also responsible for the air they fly in.  To keep it clean, pure, and uncontaminated.  We've failed.

If we are responsible for cattle--the animals of the earth--we are responsible for the food chain they depend on.  We've failed.

If we are responsible for the earth, we are also responsible for what we do with it.  To keep it clean, pure and uncontaminated.  To stop dumping contaminants over the surfaces that the animals, the farmers, and the world depends on for food.  We've failed.

If we are responsible for the creeping things, we have to understand their place in the food chain.  They are the cleanup crew.  When we cause imbalance in the order of life, we cause extinction of one species and overpopulation of another.  Worms clean the soil.  Insecticides kill creeping things.  Think of lady bugs.  We've failed here too.

How can God be pleased with the job he gave us to do?