Carnival of the Green 32 June 20, 2006
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Environment , trackback
This week’s roundup of green bloggers is over at Savvy Vegetarian, so go and have a look.
There are a number of reviews of Al Gore’s movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ which is being released in the US this weekend, and in the UK in September. This film should raise awareness of climate change issues, and there’s a campaign on to make sure that its opening weekend goes very well and gets it the media attention it needs.
There are a couple of interesting posts about the misanthropy that can sometimes be seen in environmentalists who believe that population reduction is the only way to save the planet, and the Evangelical Ecologist suggests that a Christian faith-based approach would increase the reverence for life, and so see humans as the stewards of the environment.
It seems to me that what is needed is not seeing humans as beings in some special position, but as only one species amoungst many, and with no more special right to use resources than any other. Buddhist meditations on the nature of different species, and one particularly powerful visualisation of someone you knew who had died having come back as an unlovely beast, such as a cockroach, generate compassion for any being, and are the realisation that we are all interconnected and interdependent.
I’ve heard the ‘humans are stewards’ arguement before and it may help to lead some to a more caring attitude to the environment, but my favourite riposte to it (not original, but I can’t remember where it came from) was that it was more like letting the goat be the gardener.
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