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        For the beauty of the earth....For the glory of the skies....



                                         
                                                                                                       
              
                                                                                              
 
What We Can Do To Save Our Planet:

As part of the environment what we do to the environment, we do to ourselves.

This is one of the main messages of environmental protection.
In the same way that environmental degradation takes place in a variety of forms, so too does environmental healing. We are all consumers and waste producers, and as such we play  a major role in the degradation of the Earth. We must all be part of the solution. What follows are some additional ideas for how you, as an individual, can step a little lighter on the Earth. Write your local energy utility asking them to promote energyefficient programs, give customers financial incentives to use energy efficient appliances and begin planning to provide alternatives to fossil fuels and nuclear power.

Get involved in one of the many local environmental groups in your area that work on issues ranging from local air and water pollution to effective community recycling programs. Lobby your politicians, council members and company leaders. Tell them your concerns and ask them to clean up their acts. If there is an environmental issue in your community that concerns you — start your own campaign. Organize a beach clean-up. Start a community curb-side composting program. You can then sell the compost to gardeners and nurseries to help cover your costs. Make your community bicycle-friendly. Start a paint exchange with your neighbours. Use the opportunity to educate your friends and neighbours about environmentally sound paint use. Set up a “pollution patrol” to report any signs of pollution in your local rivers, lakes, air and land. Organize a tree planting program. Conduct an environmental audit of City Hall. Put together a list of environmental questions to ask your representative, city staff and caretakers. Ask them about heating, light bulbs, lawn care, purchasing policies, cleaning supplies, etc. Use the information you gather to suggest changes. Give copies of the results to the people you spoke with and send a copy to your local newspaper or environmental group.           

  
Gender inequality may have had a hand in creating the ecological crisis. Perhaps the failures of our ecological world have resulted from specific domination of the green movements themselves. Ecological ethics has the potential to make some major contributions to environmental issues. Basically we have compromised ourselves with the ideology of freedom and progress which has slowly but surely established itself on the basis of the so-called antrhropocentric shift from the seventeenth century onwards, and subsequently infiltrated itself all over the world by all kinds of capitalism.
 
Humanity has been slow to grasp what is at stake in ecological degradation.

We have focused closely on human decisions and relations which impact directly on human life and interests, but we have not viewed decisions and actions that impact the non-human world - - ecosystems, animals and plants. The use and harnessing of nature were held to be subject to evalutation according to need and not related to ethics.

Immanuel Kant summarized this general ethical view, that rational beings are "persons" and thus valued ends-in-themselves, whereas other sorts of living beings who lack rationality are designated "things" having worth only as a "means of service to the life and interests of humans." Through this teaching, have we progressed?

Moral teaching should include commitment to ecological wholeness within the wider struggle for a more just social order. All living creatures can flourish when healthy ecosystems are established. Conversion to the earth needs may provide an effective solution with a shift from the worldview of hierarchy, to a holistic world view of relationships in mutual community. 


         

Let us remember and honour Folliot Pierpoint's glorious words:

For the beauty of the earth
For the glory of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies.

Refrain

Lord of all, to Thee we raise,
This our hymn of grateful praise.

For the beauty of each hour,
Of the day and of the night,
Hill and vale, and tree and flower,
Sun and moon, and stars of light.

Refrain...

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