Christian environmental ethics assignment

The issue of Deforestation has been high on the global environmental agenda for many years, and remains a serious problem today. In the tropics and many other parts of the world, nations continue to lose the valuable biodiversity, soil and water conservation, and climate regulation that natural forests provide. Christianity can only address this matter by continuing to combine an acceptance of the command to people to ‘ multiply and replenish the earth’ (Genesis 1: 28) with a balancing injunction to act as stewards of the environment.

Charities such as Christian Ecology Link and World Vision work to increase awareness of the current ecological crisis and encourage adherents to live sustainably and make ‘ green’ consumption choices. Significant contemporary and historical religious figures have also had been highly influential towards the ethical attitudes and practices of Christians. The Roman Catholic Church has issued a number of statements on the environment. In 1985 the German Roman Catholic Bishops’ Conference issued a joint statement with the Council of the Evangelical Church entitled ‘ Exercising Responsibility for Creation’.