Sharing Eden

Sharing Eden

Interfaith Studies

Sharing Eden
Green Teachings from Jews, Christians and Muslims

Author(s): Natan Levy & David Shreeve & Harfiyah Haleem

Reviewed by: Syed Faiyazuddin Ahmad, Leicester, UK

 

Review

With the end of the First World War in 1945, the political geography of the world started to change and new countries came into beingand large scale migration from East to West started. The revolution in cyberspace accelerated the pace and the world virtually became a small village where not only the information flow is unbelievable but also people started to feel as if they all live together and equally share goodness and misfortune. This has also developed the sense that while we live together we must share the environment together and take measures so that equilibrium is not disturbed and the world remains habitable and sustainable.All the major Abrahamic faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, owe it to their belief systemsas well asto the teachings of their forefathers that they shouldlive and share together this world and contribute towards its beauty and proper maintenance. The book details in brief the different, but similar, approaches to the preservation of this earth and avoidance of its destruction and disfiguration by the excessive use of modern scientific inventions which, though beneficial in many respect,destroys the equilibrium of the earth’s eco and other systems by dumping toxic wastes and misuse of innumerable pesticides in order to create products of immense sizes and varieties to gain more money from marketing them, irrespective of their long term disastrous effects on many other species who help maintain the ecological equilibrium.


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