A growing number of church leaders and environmental activists are joining the movement to integrate ecology and justice in thought and practice.
Healthy communities depend on healthy bioregions, and vice versa , for the sake of everykind.
The term was introduced at that time as a constructive response to hostile competition that pitted racial and gender justice advocates against environmental activists. Gradually it gained currency as an integrating concept that has philosophical depth as well as practical application. Such wholistic praxis discards religious beliefs, rituals, and teachings that are preoccupied with human salvation and challenges expressions of grassroots environmentalism or of religious community that are indifferent to socioeconomic justice. Eco-justice fosters constructive human responses that serve environmental health and social equity together, or just and sustainable community. The vision and ethic of eco-justice has vital biblical roots.