Kasi, Rayappa A.2019-09-252019-09-252010-11-172010http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/175942"Earth is a one huge, lush water-world. Water is a mysterious substance. Oceans are very mysterious, keeping secrets of the hidden worlds, with their alien creatures, living fossils, lost treasures, precious metals, and perhaps even the place where life itself first arose billions of years ago. Oceans contain not only great mysteries and riches but great dangers as well, including the deadly radioactive debris of the cold war. Thousands of bombs, nuclear reactors, and warheads still lie scattered throughout the deep ocean floor. Deep pollution, mining, and fishing threaten this frontier with ecological upset and species extinction. Action is called for, but action motivated by guilt may only compound the problem. We are in disharmony with the world because we are in disharmony with ourselves. Guilt is an indication of this. Guilt is a warning that there is an incongruity in our value system, a schism in our sense of self that needs to be investigated. If we act without introspection, we simply throw our weight to one side of the inner conflict, increasing the disharmony. Our actions will be incomplete and fragmented. We will make some token move and fall back into denial and minimization. To heal is to make whole." (p. 6)engWith permission of the license/copyright holderclimate ethicsChristian ethicsclimate changewaterenvironmental protectionsustainabilityresponsibilityEnvironmental ethicsResources ethicsBook