Why The World Needs Religions to Save Our Earth?

Religion might be another resolution to our environmental crisis. In fact, Religion and science are the two most powerful forces in the world today. If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, environmental crisis would soon be solved (Wilson, 2006).

The world does need religion's perspective and view to reduce (or in extreme way to change) our destructive behaviour to mother earth. The proof that conservation has not yet touched these foundations of conduct lies in the fact that philosophy and religion have not yet heard of it. In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it insignificant (Leopold, 1949). So practice in environmental ethics is not only important to involve world society (religion believer) in conservation policy but also to improve their morals and alter their attitudes (Deen, 1992; Light, 2002).

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