Article February 8, 1988 Issue

One earth, one environment

The environment we share is subject to the spiritual law of God. Understanding this purifies our lives and our world.

Rosalie E. Dunbar

In the last few years major environmental problems on several continents have emphasized our dependence on each other. The radioactivity released at Chernobyl and other incidents of this nature have dramatized the fact that all of us share one planet and are touched by a global, not just a local, environment.

This fact of our sharing one earth can have good results if it leads us to work together to solve problems. Yet there also seems to be a negative side, one that says we are helpless if someone somewhere makes a major mistake. What then?

There is a saying that "the best defense is a good offense," and in this case, our best defense is to think deeply about our environment before we face such threats. We do this by striving to purify our sense of ourselves and our environment. Prayer is vital to this work because it spiritualizes thought, lifts it above the material, carnal tendencies of greed, carelessness, ignorance, that are at the heart of so much environmental damage.

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