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Article: HOW CAN RELIGION PROTECT THE PLANET?(Brief Article)
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- Sierra
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
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Organized religions have already made strong statements about our obligation to be stewards of the earth. However, much more can be done. Religious leaders need to enter the public arena and declare that despoiling wilderness and polluting the planet are not simply mistaken policies but profound moral failings and, ultimately, desecrations of something holy. They need to scrutinize the environmental actions of the corporations in which church funds are invested and the ecological track records of the typically rich and powerful lay leaders of religious organizations. Every church, synagogue, mosque, and temple should be a model of energy efficiency and recycling, use ...