When climate change protesters marched on Wall Street last September, their charge was to bring attention to a global urgency that requires a deep and abiding transformation of the way we think about, invest in, and relate to the environment.
Laying blame on the corporate, bureaucratic, and industrial world follows on the heels of Lynn White, Jr., who â?? in the 1960s â?? pointed the finger at religion as being at the root of our ecologic crisis. He cited Christianity as the most anthropocentric faith tradition the world has ever known; what with its linear Creation story, the eviction of pagan animism from every corner the Church claimed as her own, the uniqueness of humankind being made in the image of God, and the ostensible submission of the natural order to human utility.
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