Christian environmentalist and author Erik Peacock will speak and take questions.
This talk explores the ethical basis for caring about the non-human world. It posits that the notion of inherent value is based in Biblical world view. It explores the impact of Biblical world view and Christian radicalism on social and ethical progress in the West and places the modern environmental movement in that context.
It argues that modernity is a fruit of Biblical world view but is now in conflict with environmental imperatives.
It concludes with the need for an expanded ethical franchise.
Erik is 39 years old, married to Jennifer and they have two young children. Erik is a State servant and has had a career primarily in justice and law reform. He was baptised at 11 years of age, and has been an active Christian ever since. He was an environmental activist for much of the decade of the 1990s and continues to be active and write on a range of issues. Erik, Jennifer and family live on two acres in Berriedale.
December 7, 2012, 1pm – 2pm in the Cathedral
Will Briggs
