Bill Moyers talks to Grist magazine's David Roberts about the confluence of religion and environmentalism. Here's a sample with Moyers about reconciling the apparent conflict between the biblical command to multiply and the ecological warnings about the planet's carrying capacity.
The only thing the Bible says is "go and increase," and that's open to a lot of interpretation. I come out of a school that says you read the Bible at the same time you read the daily newspaper. You weigh and wrestle with your ethical obligations based on your understanding of the Bible, but alloyed by, tempered by, or even challenged by the facts on the ground, and other sources of revelation, whether it's the revelation of nature or the revelation of science. You weigh these against each other, and in the spirit of liberty, try to understand the obligations you have as an individual living in a society that is not like you.
Moyers's program "
Is God Green?," airs this Wednesday, October 11th.
Check your local listings.
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I went to see EO Wilson talk last night at City Arts and Lectures in San Francisco. He has written a new book along these lines, Creation, addressed to the Southern Baptists he grew up with.
speak of the devil
Remember: HE is the Prince of Peace: to one another and our relationship with the environment.
The arguement made by the "use it up" philosopher was strange, I thought. From my perspective as a Christian, the positions of the hard right on this issue are as dopey as the welfare-state positions of the hard left.
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