Can you see that footprint in the clouds? Is it God’s our ours, carbon or creation? One reason some the world’s leading religions might have appeared slow on the uptake on climate change might be because they’ve been preaching it all along, for thousands of years. Underpinned by doctrines of stewardship and creation, it is a “given” in Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam that we should look after the earth and not exploit it. Maybe because it was so much taken for granted as part of their teaching, churches such as the Roman Catholic appear to have said little.

Ruth Gledhill - Times Online

Australia - Catholic Earthcare
Papal Council for Justice and Peace and the Academy of Sciences (The Tablet subscription only)
The Baptist Times (subscription required)
Anglican Church - Shrinking the Footprint
The Noah Project - The Big Green Jewish Website
Leader Post - Canadian Churches
United Church of Canada
World Council of Churches

There are many people of faith that see things differntly. Lee Harding a former TV journalist in Saskatchewan is an example.


One Response to “World religions and the Environment”

  1. 1 nakedpastor 

    it is becoming more and more clear to me that we are finally paying for our poor stewardship. all religions, including Christianity, have to abort our fatalistic attitudes toward the material and care for it, as we should our own bodies.

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