Excerpt #113 from my book, Religion, An Obstacle to Human Progress
The rate and range of global environmental deterioration is unprecedented.
It is driven by the relentless needs of a global population growing out of control.
Parasite-like and swarming, we destroy our environment.
With astonishing speed, we attack our ecosystems like businesses in liquidation.
We have upset an extraordinary array of life that took billions of years and endless experiments to produce.
Environmental problems cross the boundaries of nation states, academic disciplines, political and cultural ideologies, and religious theologies.
They affect the affluent and the impoverished, developed and developing nations, individuals and whole societies.
TRAGEDY DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE.
These problems are far more than just another on a list of major concerns.
Our relationship with our environment is at the core of our existence.
“THEY TOOK WITHOUT GIVING BACK” WILL BE THE EPITAPH OF HUMANITY.