1.1 Environmental Issues - Quotes

Question 1

Genesis 1:26

Answer 1

‘Let us make man in our image after our likeness’ ‘Let them have dominion over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth’

Question 2

St John Chrysostom

Answer 2

‘We ought to show The Saints great kindness and gentleness because they are the same origin as ourselves’

Question 3

Lynn Townsend White

Answer 3

‘Man named all the animals, thus establishing his dominance over them. Although mans body is made with clay, he is not simply part of nature: he is made in God’s image’

Question 4

Revelation 21:1

Answer 4

‘Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more’

Question 5

James Lovelock

Answer 5

‘There aren’t just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It’s our evolutionary history’

Question 6

Peter Singer

Answer 6

‘All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals’

Question 7

Peter Singer 2

Answer 7

‘The life of a new born is of less value than the life of a pig or a dog’