Review: 'Walking God's Earth' | National Catholic Reporter

Review: 'Walking God's Earth' | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Silent Spring was the quintessential environmental tome, and Risk and Culture by Douglas and Wildavsky was a response showing how the environmental movement is a product of Douglas' cultural theory - which was further developed by Wildavksy, et al in the book Cultural theory.  For example, egalitarians think nature is fragile, while hierarchs do not, under bounded circumstances, while the libertarians think that all risk can be managed.  The question of obvious direct pollution and theoretical warming is probably what most people will engage in.  As for what is more planetary, the Christian issue is how we respond to the disaster, since we really have no hope of actually stopping some of these assisted cyclic changes.  For example, during this cold snap, how do we help those living in the street or those of us with no good heating system (as I shiver while I type)?  That is what Catholic enviros must focus on.