“Pope Francis a ‘Franciscan Jesuit’ when it comes to environment”
April 8, 2013, National Catholic Reporter article about Pope Francis’ environmental beliefs.
Category: Environment
Arthur Dahl
Arthur Dahl is a member of the Bahá’í Faith, retired deputy assistant executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme and now coordinator of the UNEP/University of Geneva Programme of Advanced Studies in Environmental Diplomacy. He can speak about Bahá’ís and sustainable development and climate change. He lives in Geneva, Switzerland.
“Pope Francis on World Environment Day speaks of food waste, lack of attention to needs of poor”
June 5, 2013, Huffington Post article about Pope Francis’ speech on World Environment Day in which he cited scripture in calling for people to care for the environment and decried the influence of money in the world.
“Does end time belief really cause climate change apathy?”
July 5, 2013, Religion Dispatches essay looking at research which investigates whether belief in a coming religious apocalypse causes believers to care less about protecting the environment.
“Religions seen slow to go green; Pope Francis has chance to inspire”
June 17, 2013, Reuters “FaithWorld” blog post about the historically slow pace of religions to embrace environmentalism and the possible increase in that pace thanks to the impact of religious leaders including Pope Francis.
“Saving the Earth the Hindu way”
July 9, 2013, Trinidad Express Newspapers column about the Hindu response to environmental concerns.
“Religion and the environment”
April 19, 2013, segment from PBS’ Religion & Ethics Newsweekly which discusses the relationship between faith and the environment.
“Stanford experiment foretold Iraq scandal / ‘Inmates’ got abused in psychology study”
Read a May 8, 2004, San Francisco Chronicle story on how the Stanford Prison Experiment foretold Abu Ghraib.
John F. Dovidio
John F. Dovidio is a psychology professor at the Yale University. He is a social psychologist and co-author of the chapter “Contemporary Racial Bias: When Good People Do Bad things” in The Social Psychology of Good and Evil.