Animist and pagan traditions treat rivers and mountains as persons rather than resources — a stance now echoed in legal personhood for rivers

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The stewardship debate asks whether dominion in Genesis means domination or responsibility — the Hebrew verb carries both readings Islamic ecological ethics draws on the idea of humans as khalifa — trustees of creation rather than owners Deep ecology borrows from religion a sense of the sacred while insisting it is not a religion Jain ahimsa extends non-harm to microorganisms with a rigor that modern environmental ethics rarely matches Why people describe a first night alone in the backcountry as a religious experience Did the doctrine that only humans bear the divine image shape Western indifference to nature more than any economic cause? Dependent origination treats things as arising only in relation to others — which some Buddhist teachers read as a ground for ecological ethics What it means to call a landscape sacred inside a secular legal system Laudato si' reframed climate action as a moral duty of faith rather than a technical policy problem Jain monks sweep the ground before walking — how far does ahimsa extend?