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THE ALIENATION OF MAN AND NATURE
The environmental movement began as a
protest against Western culture’s alienation from nature. This alienation was
said to have its roots in the Judeo-Christian heritage that sets man apart as a
special creation above the natural kingdom (see Genesis 1:28, 29).
Environmentalism advanced the antithesis that puts an all-wise Mother Nature on
a pedestal above the human race. The natural is lauded and, to quote an old
one-liner, “only man is vile.” More……
