ABSTRACT
One perspective on environmental ethics is that of queer ecology. Its main claim is that the queer experience is deeply meaningful in the context of ecological ethics, as it affirms the fundamental interconnectedness of all living beings, celebrating its rich diversity. Queer ecology can make an important positive-critical contribution to the notion of ecological ‘fittingness’. It helps to give voice and space to the justified desires and interests of all the stakeholders in a specific locale. Simultaneously, it challenges ideologically hijacked conceptions of fittingness that are too quickly closed off to nature’s rich variety. As such, it dynamises the concept of ‘fittingness’ towards recognising a more complex ordering, one that includes the wildness and the quirkiness of nature. In this chapter, I engage queer ecology from a Christian theological perspective. Specifically, I engage queer ecology through the lens of the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In doing so, I identify in which respects the concerns of queer ecology and Christian environmental ethics coincide, while also highlighting points of contention.
