• A Jewish Response

The real cause of [environmental] abuse is human failure to heed religious teachings against the exclusive importance of material goals. The real cause of our destruction of the environment is our total preoccupation with wealth and comfort. To the extent that science and technology have become the handmaidens of profit instead of truth, they have become part of the problem and need now to be redirected to being part of the solution. (Rabbi Saul Berman, “Jewish Environmental Values”).