Notes

  1. . J. Irwin Miller, “Changing Priorities: Hard Choices, New Price Tags,” Saturday Review, January 23, 1971, p.36.
  2. . Albert Rosenfeld, The Second Genesis: The Coming Control of Life (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1969); Leroy Augenstein, Come, Let Us Play God (New York: Harper & Row,1969).
  3. . Augenstein (pp. 135‐38) is a noteworthy exception. He affirms very strongly that our decisions must be based on fundamental values which are associated with the belief in a creator.
  4. . Cf. Nicholas Rescher, “A Questionnaire Study of American Values by 2000 A.D.,” in Values and the Future: The Impact of Technological Change on American Values, ed. Kurt Baier and Nicholas Rescher (New York: Free Press, 1969), pp. 135–36.
  5. . According to Jacques Ellul (The Technological Society, trans. John Wilkinson [New York: Vintage Books, 19641, p. 434) from a survey conducted in 1960 by the Paris weekly L'express among notable American and Russian scientists.
  6. . Ibid., p. 435.
  7. . Langdon Gilkey in his stimulating study, Religion and the Science Future:
  8. . Ibid., p. 94.
  9. . Cf. Donald Imsland, Celebrate the Earth (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1971), p. 17.
  10. . Cf. the instructive essay by Bruce Wrightsman, “Man, Manager or Manipulator of the Earth,” Dialog 9 (1970): 213–14. Cf. also the source book compiled by Thomas R. Detwyler (Man's Impact on Environment [New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 19711) and the one compiled by William W. Murdoch (Environment: Resources, Pollution b Society[Stamford, Conn.: Sinauer Associates, 19711).
  11. . Gordon, JF. MacDonald. Pollution, Weather and Climate,” inMurdoch  pp. 330–31.
  12. . Ibid., pp. 333–34.
  13. . With reference to these problems the term “pleonexia” seems to have been used first by V. A. Demant The Idea of a Natural Order: With an Essay on Modern Asceticism [Philadelphia: Fortress Press, Facet Book, 19661, p. 39), who advocates a practical asceticism which witnesses to the truth of the maxim: Production is for man, not man for production. According to Demant, such asceticism would be a testimony to the old teaching “that the really satisfying life does not depend upon the number of commodities one can acquire, but upon the fruitful exercise of our inner powers” (p. 39). Rejections on Myth, Science, and Theology (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), p. 95.
  14. . M., KingHubbert. Energy Resources, inMurdoch  , pp. 1024.
  15. . Ibid., pp. 110–12.
  16. . Ferren MacIntyre and R. W. Holmes, “Ocean Pollution,” in Murdoch, p. 250.
  17. . Preston Cloud in his sobering report, “Mineral Resources in Fact and Fancy,”
  18. . Ibid., pp. 85–87.
  19. . Most alert men are convinced that overpopulation lies at the root of our whole present ecological crisis. Cf. Frederick Elder, Crisis in Eden: A Relipous Study of Man and Environment (Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1970), pp. 108‐9; and William E. Martin (“Simple Concepts of Complex Ecological Problems,” Zygon 5 [1971: 305) convincingly points out that the real problems are population growth and economic growth. in Murdoch, p. 73.
  20. . Cloud, p. 82.
  21. . Imsland, p. 74.
  22. . Cf. ibid., pp. 75–77.
  23. . Ritchie P., Lowry. Toward a Radical View of the Ecological Crisis,Environmental Affairs  1 (1971): 355.
  24. . LynnWhite, jr. The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,” first published inScience  155 (1967): 1203–7, and reprinted in Detwyler (pp. (27–35) and many other publications.
  25. . Ibid., p. 31.
  26. . Ibid., p. 32.
  27. . Elder, p. 19.
  28. . Ibid., pp. 160‐61.
  29. . Wolfhart Pannenberg, What Is Man? Contemporary Anthropology in Theological Perspective, trans. D. A. Priebe (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1970), p. 12.
  30. . The power of the technocrats and of big business was first eloquently exposed as the cause of our environmental crisis by Rachel Carson in Silent Sprzng (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.,1962).
  31. . Cf.Hans Schwarz. Theological Implications of Modern Biogenetics,Zygon  5 (1970): 260.
  32. . Cf. Wrightsman (n. 10 above), p. 211.
  33. . Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951),
  34. . Cf. Imsland (n. 9 above), p. 69.
  35. . Ibid., p. 68.
  36. . Cf. Lowry, p. 356.
  37. . We agree with Frederick Elder (“A Different 2001,” Lutheran Forum 4 [1970]: 10) and with others that the new era will be a time of the “grand slowing down” if measured in terms of increase in material productivity. But this is certainly not the only scale on which progress can be measured.
  38. . The eschatological dimension of ecology is very clearly pointed out by H. Paul Santmire in his book Brother Earth: Nature, God, and Ecology in Time of Cris; (New York: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1970) when he talks about “the foretaste of the New Creation” (pp. 174‐76). He asserts that the overall matrix of the Kingdom of God and his righteousness will allow us to have dominion without exploitation (p. 191). No longer will either nature or civilization provide the ultimate norms of human life, either explicitly or implicitly. Both will be subordinated to the Kingdom of God (p. 182). But again we wonder what he means when he says that nature and civilization will be fellow citizens of the kingdom. Does he, like Elder, advocate an inclusionist view of man? 1:73.
  39. . Elder, “A Different 2001,” p. 10.
  40. . Eugen Rosenstock‐Huessy, The Christian Future: Or the Modern Mind Outrun (New York: Harper Torchbook, 1966), p. 61.
  41. . Ibid., p. 66.
  42. . Elder (Crisis in Eden, p. 145) has advocated this new asceticism very eloquently. However, he cautions that unlike medieval asceticism this would not involve a withdrawal from the world but simply a new way of acting toward and with the world. The basic elements of this new asceticism are restraint, an emphasis upon the quality of existence, and reverence for life. Unlike Albert Schweitzer, Elder does not understand this reverence for life as a mystic and religious dedication to life, but as “an appreciation for any expression of life, based on scientific, aesthetic, and religious considerations” (p. 152).