The new interdependence of the Global Village

Our speed-up today is not a slow explosion outward from center to margins but an instant implosion and an interfusion of space and functions. Our specialist and fragmented civilization of center-margin structure is suddenly experiencing an instantaneous reassembling of all its mechanized bits into organic whole. This is the new world of the global village.'' - Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man, 1964

By surveying the somewhat new, though burgeoning, literature of religious environmental ethics and theology (ecotheology), we can examine a wide range of theological perspectives and ecological issues. While all valid responses to ecological challenges will be grounded in some religious and philosophical worldview, there must also be dialogue with the natural and social sciences, including, but not limited to, conservation and evolutionary biology, sociology, economics, ecology, physics, anthropology, and political science.