Editorial October 3, 1970 Issue

To Care for the Environment

Carl J. Welz

In an interview with Richard Conrat, instructor of photography at San Francisco Art Institute, Alan Jones, an architect, is quoted as saying, "Most of our environmental problems won't be solved until people's attitudes change—until their personal habits and patterns of life reflect an understanding of their relationships to each other and to the environment."^{San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, March 22. 1970;} Through Christian Science we have an opportunity to hasten the day when people will understand these essential relationships and change their habits and patterns of life accordingly.

Christian Science reveals God as the infinite Principle of the universe, including man. This Principle is Mind, the only Mind of man. Mankind's insistence upon interfering with the ecology of their environments stems from their failure to understand the infinite Principle. Each individual insists that he has a mind, or principle, of his own, and that therefore his primary interest can be served best by giving only minimum attention to the interests of his fellowmen. So he defaces the land, poisons the waters, and pollutes the atmosphere until such time as he can feel the effects of what he is doing on his health or his income. But this is not soon enough.

If the real Mind of each individual is infinite Principle, then each one reflects within his consciousness the love for man and the universe that is normal to an idea of this all-intelligent Mind. As human beings, men may not recognize this love in themselves or in others. But it is there, and because it is there individuals the world over can be reached and awakened through the universal Mind to a higher sense of their relationship with the Principle of the universe, with each other, and with their environments.

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