Eco-terrorism and sagacious care for natural environment – its metaphysical and biblical aspects

Abstract

Problems relating to protection of natural environment are lively discussed nowadays. The world of nature used to be for a human being an environment, in which he had to fight for survival. The dynamic progress of technology, which we experienced in the last centuries, contributed to existence of a new situation, in which it is not only nature that may pose a threat to a human being, but a human being may affect natural environment in a more destructive manner as well.

The need to care for natural environment seems to be something obvious and unquestionable in this context. However, controversies arise at attempt to determine attitudes and activities, which should embody the care. The practice shows that one has to face numerous situations, in which particular types of well-being conflict with one another, namely construction of a safe road involves destruction of greenery, progress in medicine, which, in a longer perspective, is to contribute to saving of human life and health, assumes the need to perform painful experiments on animals and striving to improve human comfort assumes development of industry, which affects natural environment etc.

Apart from manifestations of sound care about the environment, nowadays we also deal with a series of extreme attitudes and initiatives, which are manifested, among other in, a phenomenon referred to as eco-terrorism. Eco-terrorists, who are inspired by a monistic vision of reality, in which significant differences between a human being and his natural environment, are erased, are ready to undertake activities, which pose a threat to human life and health for the sake of alleged protection of “animals’ rights”.

Thus, a current task is still to search for and show world view attitudes, which could constitute a basis for reasonable and sound care for the natural environment expressed in making right decisions as regards the above-mentioned cases of conflict between well-beings. Both realistic metaphysics and deep reflection on biblical texts will make it possible for one to discover the truth about a human- -being and his relations with his environment, which will constitute a basis for achievement of this aim.