Why aren't more faith-based people rabid environmentalists?
Many faith-based people lean toward conversative attitudes (i.e., the Religious Right), which often extend beyond hot-button political issues, such as a woman's right to choose and prayer in school, to economic and envionrmental policies. So, often, the views do not embrace a conservation perspective, but support or fail to address views and actions that lead to the continued employment of fossil fuels, the deployment of a military strategy to retain and extend access to needed resources, and business practices that endanger communities and place sensitive natural areas at risk.
If people with strong religious convictions truly believe that the earth is a gift from a higher power, then, would they not undertake every effort to nurture and preserve our home? If nature is indeed, as they profess, the higher power's creation, why are they not screaming at the top of their lungs to treat the earth with the respect attendant to that view? Why do they not treat earth with respect for its gifts, instead of treating it as bounty to be exploited for selfish pursuits?
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