1. Christianity Encourages or Discourages the Conservation of Biodiversity
... and the governing are possible. Hinchman (2001) not only argues that present-day environmentalism springs from The Enlightenment, but, more importantly, that the Western environmental ethic is undergoing a paradigm shift. This paradigm shift is analogous to the change in viewpoint Enlightenment thinkers advocated for European society visĀ -vis other non-Western societies, i.e. an extension of Lockean rights to all people. Hinch (2001) ... . I began to recognize that the Judeo-Christian environmental ethic is connected to a broader societal process that is transforming Western culture's ...
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