Tag Archive

liberation theology

Theological and Ecological Radicalisms: Some Common Ground

“Environmentalism is essentially elitist. You have to be pretty secure economically before you can care about trees and animals and how beautiful your environment is.” The remark, which I overheard in someone else’s conversation, struck me as both familiar and startling. I can’t guarantee that I remember it verbatim, as Stan Mack used to in his Real Life Funnies, but that may be because its import is so familiar that I grasped it only a few words in. What startled me about the remark was how deeply I objected to it. It doesn’t square with what I understand about the Read more