Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that.
Environmentali sm is really about seeing our place in world in a way that humans have always known up until very recently - that we are part of nature-utterly dependent on the natural world for our well being and survival.
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
Perhaps the whole world is actually a banquet, to which every living thing is invited. First you come as guests: then eventually you're on the menu.
Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.
There are some things in the world we can't change...
Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.
How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.
Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.