Climate Change
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How global warming, ocean acidification and other human-caused changes to the environment are, and will, play out along with how Buddhists are reacting to the unfolding catastrophe.
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The article first identifies and assesses two different strategies used by advocates of Buddhist environmentalism in Thailand, one being textual and the other practical. Then, after laying out the deficiencies of the textual strategy, the article argues that the practical strategy offers a more meaningful basis for a discourse of Buddhist environmental concern.
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Loy’s remarks do not neatly divide into two types: those directed primarily at Buddhists on account of their (presumably) shared metaphysics and ontology, and those aimed at a general audience in light of the universality of the prescriptions and effects of his plan to heal the biosphere. Quite the contrary, Loy’s central thesis is that there are common “spiritual roots” to our ecological crisis and that the Buddhist soteriological structure, when properly understood and applied from the individual to the collective case, holds the key to our way out. Loy’s wish is not simply that we all “stop befoul[ing] our own nest” in the ways already mentioned, but that we all “awaken” to the true causes of environmental spoilage—our false belief in an ultimate “separation from other people and from the natural world” and our dysfunctional striving after “ever-increasing power and control” as a way of resolving our collective anxiety about what it means to be human. If these points weren’t proof enough of Loy’s unwillingness to play by any Maritainian or Rawlsian-inspired rules of compartmentalization, there is also his direct appeal to religions to change their internal lives: to “stop denying evolution and instead refocus their messages on its meaning.”
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