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Socijalna ekologija : časopis za ekološku misao i sociologijska istraživanja okoline, Vol. 6 No. 1-2, 1997.

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NATURAL TECHNOLOGY

Frederic Turner ; University of Texas, Dallas

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Abstract

Discussed are the relation and fundamental differences between modern Christianity and environmental ethics. There are four basic objections towards environmentalists: Nature is not and has never been static, so the concept of an overall homeostasis is a fundamentally unnatural objective; man and Nature can only be defined as acceleration, any retardation appears for human kind to be unnatural; one of the fundamental principles of Nature is the hierarchy in which the human kind is superordinate to all other kinds; the claim for a sustainable relation between man and Nature cannot be implemented because Nature is not being sustained but increasingly changed.
As a conclusion, the author explicates the theological prerequisites of environmental protection and points to technology as the central issue of environmental ethics.

Keywords

environmental ethics; God; Nature; technology

Hrčak ID:

141514

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/141514

Publication date:

15.1.1997.

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