ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a survey of resources for environmental ethics in a number of the world's religions. "Environmental ethics" is understood as moral teachings that can be used to guide policies and prescribe practices that benefit the environment. An investigation of religious resources for environmental ethics shows that a diversity of fundamental beliefs, values, and practices in different traditions may be useful in arriving at a solution to the environmental crisis. The present environmental crisis is unprecedented in at least two ways: in its rate of change and in its global reach. If the norms for environmental ethics just outlined can be seen as common to different religions, then the interreligious inquiry has rendered some service. The Hebrew Bible is the basis of environmental ethics in Judaism, and the fundamental biblical themes just outlined are powerfully reinforced in daily Jewish worship.
