Drawing on a framework of integral ecology, let me offer an analysis on the complex interplay between systemic ecological destruction, rampant labor exploitation, and the necessary, yet potentially insufficient, response from church social action ministries. On the one hand, according to Marx, the capitalist system of production requires that only a few own the means of production. The type of economic development it envisaged cannot be realized without at the same time impoverishing the laborers and ravaging the environment. Proponents of capitalist development are unwilling to let the ecological crisis stall their pursuit of economic growth. Consequently, they face a dilemma: how to maintain ecological advocacy without sacrificing economic development.