All creation is suffering because of mankind's sin and rebellion. That bird outside my window, busy worshipping the Lord with his song - giving pleasure to the Lord because he's doing what he was originally created to do, is just minding his own business, being a bird. He isn't confused about whether he's a male or female bird, he doesn't wish he was a female bird, but I digress - the point I wish to make is this - he's minding his own business, then man comes along and covers his fields with cement, and chops down all his trees or war breaks out, fire rains down from above, or he flies into a windshield he couldn't see, and that bird dies. His life and death were affected by man and not in a good way.
Did you know there is four times as much plastic in our oceans as plankton? Or that there's a garbage pile floating in the Pacific that's twice the size of Texas and growing? Or that the Brazilian rain forest is being decimated daily? We have wiped out entire species of life! Other species are on the verge of extinction. We are, simply put, terrible stewards of ourselves and God's creation. God told us to "replenish the earth" not deplete it. "For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." All mankind, every man, every woman and child on earth is in "the bondage of corruption" except those who have become the children of God - "But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. Which were born, not of blood, nor of thee will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." Yet even we, as God's holy children, though no longer in bondage to corruption, are affected by the filthy, corrupted world we must abide in until He returns.
Though we strive to sin not, we are daily affected buy the sins of fallen men and women "and others save with fear, pulling the out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh", "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." All creation is waiting on us - the children of God, to be manifested in our eternal glory as Jesus manifested His eternal glory at the mount of transfiguration. "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now" - "waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body." In this sense, when God creates the "New Heaven and the New Earth", He will "reverse" the order of the first creation, starting with man, and ending with Day 2. He will not need to create "Light" (revelation knowledge), for all will be revealed, nothing hidden, no darkness. Neither will He need to create a new sun - "And there shall be no night there, and they need no candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light; and they shall reign forever and ever."

Part two soon.....