Nearly fifty years ago, historian Lynn White, Jr., published in Science magazine an article that soon became famous, was reproduced hundreds of times in anthologies and course readings, and is still in use in college courses on environmental ethics, religion, and policy. In “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,” White claimed, “By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects” and that the Bible … [Read more...]