Jewish Law

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How It Relates To Environmentalism

Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself

Caring for the Environment does not only refer to nature, but also for those who reside and are affected by the environment. Power plants and WHAT, can release harmful metals and carcinogens into the air and dirt, resulting in the surrounding people being negatively affected for generations.

Examples of people who lived happily before harmful chemicals were released, include the people of Minamata, Japan, the once existing community of Mossville, Louisiana, as well as people of low income and racial communities who are more vulnerable to environmental pollutants.

(Refer to Bullard, Robert D. The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, ed. Robert D. Bullard. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2005.)

http://www.shtiebel.net/ecoheksher#

“Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?” (Isiah 40:12)

G-d’s precision and care for nature should be preserved like one would preserve a painting, except we get to live within his artwork.

kiddushin daf 30b Gemara / leviticus? that talks about a man being like a tree