Environmentalism

“We want to emphasize that none of the Buddhist teachers in the Boulder area knew about his plans to self-immolate on this Earth Day. …. we would have stopped him in any way possible.” - RNS

“In their first joint statement ever, the spiritual leaders of Christianity’s three largest denominations addressed the United Nations.” - C.Today

Also in the news: Preach Progressive Climate Policy, Ecumenical Group Advocates

“The contemporary environmentalist movement has often been flawed and clumsy and sometimes evil, as any movement made up of fallen sinners tends to be. But, at the core of it, is a concept Christians ought to recognize. It is that of creatureliness, and dependence, and longing for the permanent things.” - BPNews

“While Dr. Northcott and others prescribe abandonment of industrial civilization, or what Dr.

“Religious cultures have often had deep strains of apocalyptic or millenarian sentiment, including the Christian and Jewish traditions, but the extreme forms of environmental apocalyptic today are rooted in the material and and are devoid of any sort of … eschatological aim such as the renewal of Creation or deriving some meaning out of final things.

“It seems that no amount of reform, legal enforcement and economic development can stop the people of my country [India] from littering and abusing the environment around them. They need a different worldview.” - Cornwall Alliance

“The focus on intuition in the Deep Ecology movement explains, in part, why feminism allies itself with environmental­ism, particularly with Deep Ecology and animal rights.

“A single devastating graph shows official climate predictions were wild”

“[W]hy should they give it up for a lot of misguided science that would only make them poorer? I think it’s mostly nonsense.”

“Naive and out of touch? Leading evangelical bishop slates Pope’s climate change encyclical”