What is the spiritual root of environmental problems?
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Many have cited the Bible's command to "sudue the earth" as justification for doing whatever they want to the planet. But some writers have argued for a more subtle reason for our lack of respect for the environment. In most traditional cultures, young men go through a ritual initiation where they learn their role as adults. All of these that we know about include guidance to care for the land. In the west, and increasingly in other parts of the world, the roles of young men have become confused. There is no initiation any longer, and they enter adulthood unsure of what's expected of them, other than consuming as much as possible.
The Spiritual root of pollution is greed. Greed breeds waste, when we use more tan we need we are creating more waste than we need to so I would have to day the Greed is the spiritaul cause of Pollution
Interesting answers so far.
If by spiritual you mean religioius then I have to place the blame on creationism and the subtext which makes people believe all life was created for them to consume.
Pollution originates in universities and private labs, in engineering firms and the halls of government. The universities and private labs play with creating molecules that serve a particular function with no regard to its effects as a waste product. The engineering firms create everyday products out of it and the government blindly signs off that it is okay.
Pollution comes from manufacturing everything we use everyday.
The worst form of pollution, I think, other than the immediate problem with CO2, is packaging ... disposable, single use packaging. I WONDER, what smart retailer or manufacturer is already thinking about what a greaat marketing scheme it would be to minimize packaging on Xmas toys . hmmm?
At least a prominent recycling triangle on the front *LOL*
The spiritual root is our ignorance and inaction by those who do understand that humanity is one and all that implies. We consume and waste as if "we/our people" are the only real people, the only ones that matter. The cost to other people and other cultures, the have-nots is not the concern of the haves as long as oil, especially, and other resources, including cheap labor, to run industries stays cheap so goods stay cheap. The cost in human misery for maintaining a middle-class conspicuous consumption attitude isn't a concern. Governments reflect their citizens' attitudes and act according to how people spend their money and try to continue pleasing them. People, perhaps unaware of the fact, vote with their pocketbook much more loudly and clearly than with the ballot.
Babylon the Great. Revelation chapters 17 and 18
Hermes Trismegistos said: As above - so below, as below - so above. As within - so without, as without - so within. As in great - so in small, as in small, so in great. (More here: http://www.puramaryam.de/lawhermes.html)...
In other words: Where there is junk outside, there must be junk inside. What junk is inside? Not so difficult when you consider how much junk people eat, drink, watch, read and even breathe. Humans that live off their land are self-sufficient and don't produce non-degradable waste. Not so terribly long ago we all lived like that. So, how did we get from there to here? Was the industrial revolution and its consequences a mere product of coincidence? Of course not, but that is another aspect entirely.
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