What are the ideological origins of environmental decline? In your answer, be sure to draw upon material both from lecture and from course readings.
What will be an ideal response?
Ideas that support the domination and transformation of the
environment underlie philosophy of the West, rather than of Christianity alone.
The principal religious tradition of the West, Christianity must have been
amenable to such ideas for them to become widespread. For example, the
Christian ethic. At roughly the same time that northern farmers were developing
the moldboard plow to handle their heavy soils, they gave up paganism for
Christianity. The environment became the dominion of humans, placing humans
above nature.
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What will be an ideal response?