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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000"><b>PROFOUNDLY
GREEN: A secularist's perspective on</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000"><b>the Christian
Environmental Imperative</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">By Lance
Olsen</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">37 pages. I can
send it as text or as attachment. Lance</font></div>
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</font><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><i><b>Point of
interest:</b></i> <br>
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"We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis<br>
until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for<br>
existence save to serve man."<br>
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Lynn White. "Historical roots of our ecological crisis."<br>
<i>Science</i>, volume 155, pp. 1203-1207, 1967.<br>
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<i><b>Interesting Counterpoint:</b></i></font></div>
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<i> </i>"Ša man hath no preeminence above a beast; for all is
vanity."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Ecclesiastes 3:19 (King
James version)<br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Copyright © 2004 by Lance
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"Finally, we are committed to a high level of consumption because,
whether we need the goods or not, we very much need the employment
their production provides."<br>
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John K. Galbraith. "How much should a country consume?"<br>
In Jarrett, Henry (editor),<i> Perspectives on Conservation</i>. John
Hopkins Press. 1958<br>
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"In an attempt to clarify the issues, first let us advance the
following proposition:<i> The more wasteful a society the greater the
employment opportunities."<br>
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</i>Kimon Valaskakis, Peter S. Sindell, J. Graham Smith, and Iris
Fitzpatrick-Martin.<i> The Conserver Society.</i> 1970. Harper &
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