Does the decline in the acceptance and practice of religious tendencies help explain environmental problems?

I came across the thought that religious practice and environmental issues may be related.



Ongoing technological advancements and the desire for corporate expansion contribute to deforestation, global warming, and pollution. Increasing knowledge in scientific thought, which seems to oppose religious beliefs, may be our eventual downfall.



Although science is revealing truths about our world, perhaps it is missing out on what is most important: to respect the environment. Most religions seem to have a special bond with nature, or at least tend to respect it. Natural disasters may be seen as act of some uncontrollable force as a result of our actions.



Does anyone else see this correlation?Does the decline in the acceptance and practice of religious tendencies help explain environmental problems?Only Science can fix the problems it's caused, and in doing so we learn even more and become more efficient and safer.



The alternative is we accept that the Bible knows everything and halt all technological advancements - disaster.Does the decline in the acceptance and practice of religious tendencies help explain environmental problems?
Religion has killed more people in violent ways than science.Does the decline in the acceptance and practice of religious tendencies help explain environmental problems?Nope, it's actually the decline of the Pirate population. Does the decline in the acceptance and practice of religious tendencies help explain environmental problems?
No. Science teaches all the time to respect the environment. However capitalism sees no immediate profit in that. Few religions really respect nature - Christianity does not (although many Christians do).Does the decline in the acceptance and practice of religious tendencies help explain environmental problems?There definitely is a correlation here. But I think it is on a more super-natural level. i don't think God likes being abandoned.
How does science encourage the destruction of the environment?



What do environmental scientists do? Did they just go to school for the fun of it?



I know a number of people directly related to finding ways to preserve or restore the environment. And all the science professors in my school would freak on a student if they saw them throw a bottle in the trash and not the recycling bin.



Religious people are probably less likely to respect the environment -- thinking this world is sinful and meaningless does not generally breed a green lifestyle.Does the decline in the acceptance and practice of religious tendencies help explain environmental problems?
2 Tim 3:1-5
I very well doubt it.Does the decline in the acceptance and practice of religious tendencies help explain environmental problems?
No.



It's more due to over population, and greed. Religion is not the cause...
the destruction of the environment is really more likely caused by greedy corporations.



Religion has nothing to do with conserving the environment either.

(after all why do neo-conservatives hate the Sierra Club so much?)




This is fulfillment of scripture. Revelation 11:18;.

Environmental devastation is foreseen. Though evolution imagines that things should be getting better, the Bible foresaw what is really happening today, pollution, destruction and corrupt dominion.

All good thing s are of God. Bad things only happen when thru the acts of man, God withdraws His hand, removing the covering, and giving Satan his "legal" right to steal, kill, and destroy. It's not so much the way we "do" the environment, as to murdering innocent babies, living and promoting immoral lifestyles, etc.,

The Bible is the only prophetic book with a 100% track record. Get ready, cause here He comes!!
I think you will find it's quite the opposite. Did the thought occur to you that without todays technology and scientific advances including our medical advances we would have a small world population due to people dying unnecessarily. I think the religious are scared that science will expel religion with it's findings.
The following is a response to a question on Y!A about humans polluting the planet . . .



"Don't worry, Jesus is returning soon and will take all of us believers to a better place. I would rather leave the earth a crap-hole for all the heathens that will be left behind on it."

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