Liberation Perspective in Ecological Ethics - Focusing on Leonardo Boff’s Liberating Ecojustice

is paper illustrates an eco-ethical perspective from Leonardo Boff s Latin American theology of liberation. His works of the 1990s have made a bridge between the conception of liberation and ecological crisis. Specifically, Boff articulates “ecojustice” and “ecospirituality,” claiming that the plight of the oppressed and the Earth are closely connected. This essay emphasizes the work of Boff as a representative not only of liberation theology, but more also of ecological ethics. Ecojustice assumes that to address ecological degradation in our world, we must also challenge the exploitation of the poor. The link between economic injustices and ecological deterioration should be the main concern of ecological ethics. Furthermore, ecojustice provides a dy-namic framework for thought and action that fosters ecological integrity and the struggle for social and economic justice. Boff regards the disruption of connectedness as the ultimate root of the ecological crisis. For Koreans, the concept of ecojustice is a reminder of the connection between the devastation of indigenous culture and the damage to our natural world. Ecojustice raises a fundamental question for capitalized Korean consumers. If we take interconnectedness based on a cosmological perspective for the future generations, our approach should be ecocentric. The main emphasis of ecocentric ecological ethics is a perspective which values all life as a sacred gift and which takes the interrelation of all life so seriously that it seeks to apply care and justice sensitively to the right relationship between our species and all other life forms. The dialogical relationship between love and justice is critical to our understanding of ecojustice.