Saturday, April 12

10:30 AM

Sallie McFague
“As the World Burns: Who Do We Think We Are?”

Climate change promises monumental changes to human and other planetary life in the next generations.  Yet government, business, and individuals have been largely in denial of the seriousness of global warming in terms of the well-being of planet Earth. Further, we have failed to see the real root of our behavioral troubles in an economic model that actually reflects distorted views of the person.  At its heart, global warming occurs because we lack an appropriate understanding of ourselves as inextricably bound to the planet and its systems. It is the task of the religions to help suggest and proclaim a relational understanding of human life that will join with an alternative economics to create just and sustainable planetary living for all. 

Dr. Sallie McFague is a Distinguished Theologian in Residence at Vancouver School of Theology, in Vancouver, B.C. Prior to that she was Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. She has written extensively on environmental theology.