normative claim
Ecosystems and watersheds carry intrinsic moral standing independent of human welfare aggregation; harms to them are first-order wrongs, not costs to be offset by downstream benefit. AI buildout that drains an aquifer is not acceptable because the resulting model is useful.
theological norm_ecological_stewardship
Axiom detail
Creation-care and stewardship framing. Dominion-as-responsibility rather than dominion-as-exploitation; obligations to the non-human world grounded in theological tradition, not in consequentialist aggregation.