The meaning is the sacredness of our one blue-green planet that is rotating. Another example of this is in the Middle East there's a group called the Eco-Peace Middle East and they're working with Abrahamic traditions Judaism Christianity and Islam on the Jordan River. We proposed a blue-green plan which Tom Friedman, New York Times reporters picked up on and so on. So it's almost like in an economic story we're competing with other tribes or other nations for resources but maybe if we view the natural world as sacred that might be something that we could unite around that's not a competitive way.
This week, religious scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker unpacks the entanglement of religion and ecology from an academic perspective. She and Nate discuss what the roots of environmental ethics in religions all over the world look like and how they’ve been evolving in the face of a climate and biodiversity crisis. Could we learn and leverage the uniting power of religion to help us organize and mobilize against impending global crises?
About Mary Evelyn Tucker:
Mary Evelyn is a Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at Yale University where she has appointments in the School of Forestry and the Environment as well as the Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies, with a specialty in Asian religions. She teaches in the joint MA program in Religion and Ecology and directs the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University. Her concern for the growing environmental crisis, especially in Asia, led her to co-organize a series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard, which were highly successful.
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