Over the past sixty years China has achieved something close to a miracle when compared with other developing nations. It by and large manages to feed, educate, house and employ its own people. It is not involved in futile and costly military conflicts. It is a creditor nation, not a debtor. Its social and...
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china must talk to its religious leaders to create a culture of ecological sustainability
is democracy good for sustainability?
I’m teaching a course in religion and the environment this term, and my students are preparing to debate this very question: is democracy good for sustainability? By way of background, they have been reading Judith Shapiro’s book Mao’s War Against Nature, which forcefully details the way that Maoist ideology trumped scientific reason in charting...
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pan yue’s vision for ecological civilization
By Mary Evelyn Tucker In a world where eco-systems are unraveling and where water, soil, and species are rapidly diminishing, there are few places on Earth where environmental problems are of greater concern than China. The sheer size of the population, over a billion people, and the rapid speed of modernization are creating a...
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daoism and ecology
By James Miller I recently had the pleasure of participating in the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Forum on Religion and Ecology, now housed at Yale University. While I was there I managed to see for the first time the Chinese translation of the book Daoism and Ecology that I co-edited some ten...
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