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Environment, Economy, and Christian Ethics: Alternative Views on Christians and Markets

Environment, Economy, and Christian Ethics: Alternative Views on Christians and Markets

Young, Alistair

Paperback

Environmental StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1451479646
ISBN13: 9781451479645
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: Jan 1 2015
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.95 Depth: 8.82
Language: English

What is to be done about the damaging impact of economic activity on the environment? In recent years, there has been growing debate over this question. This book, by an economist, urges Christians to support strong governmental and intergovernmental action to improve the workings of existing global economic systems so as to provide adequate environmental protection. As such, it draws on the tradition of mainstream environmental economics and on recent developments in ecological economics. But it acknowledges that environmental policy raises important ethical and theological issues often briefly or inadequately covered within economic literature: ethically responsible attitudes to uncertainty, inequality within and between generations, the rights of traditional communities, and the obligation to respect nonhuman elements within creation. To such issues, theologians of various persuasions have in the past paid more attention than economists.

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