Social justice and environmental justice....it's all tied up together. Environmentalists are communists wrapped up in a different cloak.
"Social Development and World Peace"--United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Environmental Justice Program We urge policy makers and public officials to focus more directly on the ethical dimensions of environmental policy and on its relation to development, to seek the common good, and to resist short-term pressures in order to meet our long-term responsibility to future generations. . . . We need to use our voices and votes to shape a nation more committed to the universal common good and an ethic of environmental solidarity. "Renewing the Earth" U.S. Catholic Bishops (1992)
We remind parents that they are the first and principal teachers of children. . . . It is at home that they develop the habits of self-control, concern, and care that lie at the heart of environmental morality. . . . We ask business leaders and representatives of workers to make the protection of our common environment a central concern in their activities and to collaborate for the common good and the protection of the earth. "Renewing the Earth" U.S. Catholic Bishops (1992)
Links to Faith-Based Organizations Web of Creation: Transforming Faith-Based Communities for a Sustainable World
Theology Library: Environment--participating religious groups.
Board of Church and Society welcomes Elian's fatherUnited Methodist News Service [Excerpt] The Rev. Beverly Wilkes of Springfield, Ill., rose to say that handguns should be included in the ban because they are a cause of accidental deaths of many children. "We are calling for America to disarm itself for the sake of our children and for the sake of too many others who died too soon." She urged leaving policing to the professionals and limiting private gun ownership to those who hunt. Delegates approved a proposal to modify the resolution by directing it to the U.S. government and to the governments of other countries where the United Methodist Church is present. The full resolution calls for governments to outlaw "ownership by the general public of handguns, assault weapons, automatic weapon conversion kits and weapons that cannot be detected by traditionally used metal-detection devices." During the same morning session, delegates rejected a proposal for eliminating the denomination's Board of Church and Society, the agency that works on social issues such as gun control. Almost 70 percent of the delegates refused to abolish the organization after a discussion. One delegate said he wanted the board eliminated because it voices positions with which he does not agree. He cited the board's stance against the Boy Scouts' ban of gays and its involvement in setting up a fund to pay a lawyer for Elian Gonzalez' father. Another delegate responded that people must get the full story about such issues before they condemn the board. [End Excerpt]
Your heart is in the right place, however, environmentalists are NOT communists. Environmentalists and communists are both statists. A statist believes the government has the right and the obligation to run your life for you, for your own good because you are incapable of making the right decisions on your own.
Some will say that is just semantics, but I believe it is necessary for us to fight the right battles for the right reasons.
If you examine the politicians today you will find that the vast majority of all the parties are statists. Liberty is fading.
Statism
---The doctrine that your life, money and property are not yours, but the property of the state. You may act only by the permission of others. The power a statist wields comes from the willing support of the victim (you).