In Reply to: Re: Christian responses to environmental concerns posted by Thinker on December 09, 2009 at 09:33:09:
Thinker, I actually agree with much of what you write and find it interesting because I have been getting my feet wet on this topic. But I find two immediate problems at the onset.
I will be very interested in how you define for the purposes of this writing the term "ecological problems facing the earth", they are varied and all of them inter-related but also multidimensional in nature. So how can all of them be lumped together without discrimination as "ecological problems". Food shortages (or limited variety of crops) in the USA is not due to overpopulation in India but to agricultural policies in the USA.
Climate change, however, affects the whole world but its roots may be found in only a few countries (alas, within the industrialized world).
Next, similar diversity exists among Christians, and even among the seemingly monolithic culture of Catholicism. Their allegiance to the Pope doesn't prevent them from going to the left (Franciscans, for example) or to the right as Dominicans do ( and then it is possible to find Jesuits on both sides of the socio-economical spectrum).
Perhaps the Bible-based teachings you mention in your argument is characteristic of a Christian segment found mostly in the Unites States but not of the whole Christian world.