"We may teach people what is ethically right to do, but in order to have this applied in their lives, it will be necessary to insert it into their ethos… to root our ethical demands deep in human existence and not simply in human behavior. We must be prepared to ask not simply how people should behave, but why they must behave in a certain way. What kind of existential reasons suggest or necessitate an environmental ethic?" So asked the Orthodox leader Metropolitan John of Pergamon at a 2002 international symposium on religion, science and the environment sponsored by the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew.
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