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Lumping environmentalism in with religion makes very little sense. Religion is concerned with the afterlife...about salvation and about a relationship with the creator of all things. Religion, in the BEST sense, is concerned with a personal tie to the cosmos. In the WORST sense, it's about money and power.

Environmentalism is concerned with preserving a healthy planet and realizing that human beings must be aware of their relationship with all species, lest we lose our own lives.

What I've noticed is that many religious people tend to downplay the idea of environmentalism, preferring to take the religously approved idea that man was SET DOWN IN DOMINION over the earth and all the animals. I've wished so many times that the phrase had been translated as "stewardship."

STEWARDSHIP is very different from DOMINION, isn't it?

Unfortunately, many religious people still presume that the planet, all its resources and all the other species are for our use.

That attitude, unchecked, could be the end of all of us.