Title

Economic globalization and ecology

Description

In this message, the World Council of Churches (WCC) focuses on how economic globalization affects the environment, with a specific focus on economic justice. The following excerpt provides a succinct summary of what WCC strives to achieve in this area:

"In this context of growing inequality, concentration of power, social exclusion and ecological destruction, people are longing for life with dignity in just and sustainable communities. If that goal is to be attained we need to work for equity as basic fairness that also extends to other life forms, respect for diversity as recognition of the complementary of, for example, cultures species, religious traditions, accountability as a way of being responsible towards one another and Earth itself, participation as the optimal inclusion of all involved, sufficiency as a commitment to meet the basic needs of all, and subsidiarity as determining the most appropriate level for decision-making, supporting the downwards distribution of power."

Economic globalization and ecology

Denomination

Christian

Audience

All audiences/General public

Rights

The original html version of this resource was accessed at http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/jpc/ecearth-globalizat.html on March 27, 2020.

Issues

english Consumerism/Waste

english Eco-Justice/Poverty/Racism