Religion And The Environmental Movement

People need to have faith in everyday life when they do normal things, but they do not necessarily have to be religious as they can be only spiritual. Both spirituality and religion bring people together while having the joint aim and cause. They also care about everything else which is the same. Secluded religion cannot be included because it would mean that people believe that something is right even though it may not be right. According to Garreau: “Many evangelicals are rankled by environmentalists’ critique of the Genesis depiction of man’s place in the natural order” (Garreau 65). Evangelicals see this cause as having a bad influence on their own religion and belief. In my point of view, Gottlieb’s belief is related to the fact that …show more content…
The industrial revolution causes the environmental crisis and it affects humanity deeply and irreversibly. There is no doubt that this brings back religion in a new form which is supposed to give answers to those questions that technology cannot answer.
How could the spirituality of deep ecology help the environmental movement? Religion has faith which serves for answering all of the questions which cannot be tackled by technology, innovation and science. There is a void which is fulfilled by faith and there are also new questions which have come to the surface and which demonstrate how the living beings are interconnected and there is also religion which connects them. Is deep ecology a more promising basis of spirituality than other more traditional religions such as …show more content…
Christianity teaches about the past when there was not destruction on Earth. Deep ecology promises people earthly things and not spiritual only and it also has its basis in science and not only in spirituality. There are also no issues of control involved as in organized religion even though there are different environmental movements which have their own disagreements. There are factors which are constantly changing in environmentalism, and that is why it is unpredictable, which is not the case with sacred teachings. As Garreau says: “But can someone who has made a faith of environmentalism — whose worldview and lifestyle have been utterly shaped by it — adapt to changing facts? For the one fact we reliably know about the future of the planet’s climate is that the facts will change. It is simply too complex to be comprehensively and accurately modeled” (Garreau