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By RON HUNT
Of lt» EmaraM
The environmental crisis re
flects the pollution of current
moral values, an environmental
studies expert said Friday night
on campus
James Houston, professor of
interdisciplinary and environ
mental studies at Regent Col
lege in Vancouver, British
Columbia, said the environ
mental crisis represents the
breakdown of society as a
whole
“The ecological crisis is
fundamentally a moral crisis,"
Houston said
"The environmental crisis is a
judgment upon our mores; it's a
judgment upon our own values
and purposes in life We are
weighed in the balance and
found wanting We re found
wanting in the traits of our
civilization, we re found wanting
in the way we re treating our
own planet."
Modern social values,
according to Houston, are
quantitative rather than qualita
tive Humans rationalize their
desire for "more of the same"
and think of expansion, not
quality, he said
Houston said this desire for
"more of the same" is setting
modern society on a course for
disaster. To avert this disaster
people will have to undergo a "a
conversion, a roundabout
change,” he said
Houston noted that global
problems are so complex that
many people despair of solving
them But Houston said it is
possible to change that attitude
Christianity, Houston said,
offers hope to a world that
needs it.
'Now, the man in the world
who has no hope other than in
man has to repress an awful lot
of bad news The Christian can
articulate much of what is going
on because he has a hope
behind it," Houston said
“We want to be able to en
gender hope "
However, Houston pointed
out that there is some tension in
the Christian hope because it is
somewhat apocalyptic
"Even though the Christian
sees the end approaching, he
Knows that God is in charge of
things," he said
Though he espouses a Chris
tian perspective on current
social and environmental prob
lems, Houston said he does not
necessarily support the policies
of Secretary of the Interior
James Watt, who claims to be a
born- again Christian.
"I’m not saying that he's got
the right approach to things, but
certainly it’s a reactionary
approach to the strength of the
environmental movement over
the last decade And perhaps
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there may be a balance between
the two positions "
Houston said that humans
must begin to see the environ
mental problem from a new
perspective According to
Houston this new perspective
requires focusing on the social
as opposed to the physical limits
of growth This change in
perspective, as seen in the fight
against nuclear power and a
growing dissatisfaction with the
"cornucopia of wealth," has
been going on since 1975,
Houston said.
However, Houston noted that
the economist's notion of "more
and more" still pervades soci
ety
But economics does not
adequately serve man's needs
because "it has dealt almost
exclusively with what is rather
than with what ought to be," he
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