By Grace Ji-Sun Kim
ISBN-10: 1137344873
ISBN-13: 9781137344878
ISBN-10: 1349467081
ISBN-13: 9781349467082
Globalism, colonialism, and consumerism have brought on unjust discomfort (han), for the earth's exploited peoples and the exploited lands. To opposite this tragedy, we have to paintings for a more secure, sustainable planet and renew our suggestion from God because the reworking Spirit who supplies, sustains and empowers lifestyles to all.
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Scientists have warned us that global warming and pollution will cause catastrophic environmental events. They have warned us that our pollution is enlarging a hole in our ozone layer at the north and south poles, causing average temperatures to rise, and melting away our polar ice, which has increased sea levels. As the rise in sea levels escalates, more water surface is exposed to the sun, which increases atmospheric humidity, creating more frequent and damaging storms. Meteorological trends have led scientists to believe Sandy is a harbinger of more frequent great storms.
Html. 3 Grace Ji-Sun Kim, “Globalization and World Consumption: An Ethical Theological Discourse,” Forum on Public Policy, 6, 3 (September 2010):1. 4 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. Michael Oakeshott (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, based on the edition of 1651), 82. 5 Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, 98. 6 The rise of the economies of China and India—our two most populous nations—will have far-reaching consequences in this century. 7 Sankaran Krishna, Globalization and Postcolonialism: Hegemony and Resistance in the Twentieth-first Century (Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Nid=6371. 14 “No class of society, not even the most abjectly poor, foregoes all customary conspicuous consumption. The last items of this category of consumption are not given up except under stress of the direst necessity. ” Thorsten Veblen (2007–10–11) The Theory of the Leisure Class (Oxford University Press: Kindle Edition), 53. 15 Grace Ji-Sun Kim, “Globalization and World Consumption: An Ethical Theological Discourse,” Forum on Public Policy, Vol. 6, No 3. (September 2010): 1. 16 Tina Rosenberg, “Globalization: The Free Market Fix,” The New York Times Magazine, August 18, 2002, 28–33, 54, 74–75.
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