ABSTRACT
Judaism maintains that human beings have responsibilities to care for the planet. The Jewish religion stresses the need to preserve natural resources and generate new ones for future generations. According to tradition, it is our obligation to preserve human life by educating ourselves about the danger of environmental health risks and work to prevent them for the sake of all humanity.
‘Deep green’ and ‘shallow green’ viewpoints are brought to the fore with the criticism that Judaism apparently sees the Jewish ‘stewardship’ of non-human Nature as solely motivated by its necessity for human welfare. Some support is given for the view that non-human Nature may possess intrinsic value and not just instrumental value for human beings. The ideas of value here is brought out by the question, ‘Why save the whale?’
