RELG 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Prosperity Theology, Shining Light, Christian Views On Environmentalism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 270
• Professor: David Goodin

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Plants: possible rising yields in some high latitude but eventually failing (4-5 best is u to 3-4 degrees centigrade degree c) Ecosystems: by 2100 half of life on earth will be gone. He said: the world has environmental issues and we need to be looking at the. Weather changes all the time, climate changes slowly, averages don"t change unless some global issue equator is hot poles are cold. We don"t know what happens if you raise global average by 5 degrees c . Why isnt" the world changing? (cid:523)this is the subject of this course(cid:524) White jr. wrote in 1967 is what he"s saying still true? drivers of human b i. e. religions christianity shares some blame. Of course this is a generalization (cid:498)historical christianity has seen nature as a resource for us to control and take(cid:499) Issue: we have more than just religious affiliation ses, gender etc. Reading looked at australia b/c same heritage as north america similar.