The interface between ethics, religious faiths, and movement on environmental-ethical issues has become enriched by the work of many scholars and participants.
A good place to start learning about these interactions is the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale:
http://fore.yale.edu/
Here are a variety of other resources, with more to come in additional posts, and with links back to older, previous posts on this blog:
From a previous post:
Ethical interaction with the natural world
http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/2/144.full
From the abstract:
"I argue that both anthropocentric and biocentric approaches create a false dichotomy between humans and nature and are not helpful to modern wildlife conservation, which aims to balance the needs of people with the conservation of nature."
An exceptionally fine book, published a few years ago, Moral Ground - Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, edited by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson, details "the testimony of over 80 visionaries — theologians and religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturists, activists, and writers — to present a diverse and compelling call to honor our individual and collective moral responsibilities to our planet." The contributors consider the ethics of "doing the right thing for our planet, its animals, its plants, and its people." An amazing collection of chapters from this long list of activists and scholars - it is inspiring and idea-generating from start to finish.
More links:
http://www.faithecology.net.au/ethics_faith_consumption
https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/more/environmental-ethics/resources/a-short-course-in-environmental-ethics/lesson-ten/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X14000177
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