宗教信仰与环境保护

Environmental Protection and Religious Belief

Environmental protection can be divided into two types, the environmental protection of science and the environmental protection of belief. The former are the measures based on resource conservation and sustainable development, and the latter are the measures based on religious belief. Most people believe that science will overcome religious superstition, but in fact, question is not so simple. Modern science spares no effort to publicize the importance of maintaining ecological balance, publicize that the damage to the environment will cause scourge to human, and governments also formulate a series of laws and regulations to punish acts of damage to the environment, however, the behavior destroying the environment emerges in an endless stream. While under the domination of religious belief, people fear the gods, and they dare not exact the means of subsistence from the nature unscrupulously, objectively, this well protected environment. Thus, on environment protection, we not only need vigorously propagate the scientific thought of environmental protection, but also respect and carry forward the religious beliefs and customs which are beneficial to environmental protection, not trying to get rid of their superstition and replace it by scientific ideas.