Eco-Tethered Liberation: A New Spirituality for the
Anthropocene
takes us to some important realizations.
“While poverty and oppression continue to afflict the majority of the
human world population,
anthropogenic global environmental degradation is increasingly plaguing
the planet. These
realities mark our epoch, labelled by many as the Anthropocene. The
situation before us could
be defined by what theologian Cynthia Moe-Lobeda aptly labels ‘complex webs
of
exploitation’: they defy easy characterization and resist ready
solutions. One of the major
reasons for this predicament, I suggest, is the multi-layered and
interrelated nature of these
exploitations: environmental and social, individual and collective,
local and global. The result is
that we can no longer compartmentalize an ethical approach to problems
in our search for a
just and sustainable world. “
