Nairobi A book entitled, Earth and Faith, published by UNEP details how the religious approach to environmental conservation can save the already threatened six thousand years of life on earth. It might look far fetched, desperate, and somehow uncharacteristic of UNEP to many people. But it is by all means viable as it touches on human soft spot.
Religion can work out the miracle if it is put into dialogue with science.
The resulting harmony made UNEP believe that it can be the concern of all people if the environmental conservation can be given a religious approach. Not much action, however, followed and what is seen today is not universal action but individual commitments to spiritual environmental care. The beliefs that man is the created creator also makes him responsible for the well being of other creatures. They all rejected uncontrolled use of technology for immediate economic growth, with little or no consideration for the plant resources and their possible renewal. The UNEP Executive Director Dr Claus Toepfer adds his voice by asserting that God's works are well intentioned and that if man honoured religious obligations, nothing would go wrong with our environment.