There are a handful of lines in the Bible that stand out for me and this is one:
For what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and lose his own soul - Matthew 16: 26.
One of the most depressing sights I've seen in Asia was the plastic bottles, shoes, rugby balls, pegs and what not I encountered on the isolated beaches of Lamma just over a year ago. Asians really are even worse than other parts of the planet for junking plastic in beautiful parts of nature and caring nothing about it. More on the plastic garbage pool killing off our wildlife over here.