Trevor Hancock: When we wage war on nature, we wage war on ourselves
The roots of our current crisis can be seen clearly in Genesis, Chapter 1, where God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth, writes Trevor Hancock. Times Colonist Our relationship with the Earth has long been troubled. Thanks largely to two key developments — the adoption of Judeo-Christian beliefs and the philosophy of the Enlightenment — the Western worldview has been that we are separate from and superior to n...
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