In an interview, Roger S. Gottlieb said this:
Religion has a certain kind of legitimacy among many people and in many parts of the world that secular life simply doesn’t have. . . . In Madagascar, where the fishermen were dynamiting to get fish and destroying the coral reef and fish stock, when the government said, “Don’t do it,” they kept doing it, and when ecologists said, “Don’t do it,’ they kept doing it. But when the local sheik, the religious leader, said this was against the Koran, they stopped.
Roger S. Gottlieb is a professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The interview appeared in the June 23, 2006, issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, page A14. The occasion was Gottlieb’s new book, A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet’s Future (Oxford University Press).
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