From today's Earth Portal News, a really good article on religion and the environment including well-laid-out analyses of the environmental teachings of a number of world religions:

"Religion is usually the primary source of an individual's worldview, values, and attitudes toward nature as well as toward other humans and the supernatural. Since the 1980s, one of the most interesting and promising developments has been the growing dialogue among religions as well as between religions and sciences regarding the environment, this despite centuries of recurrent mutual antagonisms. Although there are many problems and issues that these parties do not seem to be able to discuss together let alone to achieve any agreement about, environmental crises have become a catalyst for dialog and concerted action among these diverse groups."

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