The quiet revolutionaries: why the faith-based environmental movement has become the largest civil society movement in the conservation world

摘要

In 2009, the Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Olav Kjorven, surprised many in the environmental world by saying publically and loudly that the faiths were 'now the largest civil society movement on climate change in the world'. And it is true. Worldwide, every major faith now has mainstream programmes on the environment ranging from greening pilgrimage routes such as the Hajj or the pilgrimage to Trondheim in Norway, through greening buildings from gurdwaras to mosques around the world, or creating new centres for environmental action - as the Confucian Tradition of China is now planning to do.