Like Al Gore, who named him the "Green Patriarch," the Ecumenical
Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church is a prominent leader in the
environmental movement. Since 1997, he has been bringing principal
scientists, environmentalists, religious leaders from all faiths, and
policy makers from all over the world together to work on the
ecological crisis.
This film looks at the ecological consequences of the historical split between science and religion, how we came to see ourselves as separate from nature, and how our consumer based economy found its moral justification in a Judeo-Christian view that humans have dominion over the planet’s resources. At the same time it also explores how Bartholomew's activism is inspired by the Orthodox position that we are part of nature, and that God’s intention for humans is to be stewards, or caretakers, of all creation.
In a world of unprecedented consumption of the earth’s natural
resources, Patriarch Bartholomew shows by example how saving the planet
is finally a moral issue, not solely a technological one. And as this
film follows him on his trips to the most ecologically threatened areas
of the planet, it also illustrates why these views are so
controversial.
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