Religion and the Natural World: The Idea of Ecological Consciousness

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White believed that science and technology had adopted from religion the habit for the domination of nature. If the world is ‘fallen’, then the world is not worth caring for; there is a better world coming. One consequence of this misapprehension is that we see the destruction of the natural world as something separate to us. Following White’s article, people searched for better ways to view nature. Certain Buddhist concepts and practices have been interpreted as complementing ecological science.