Jason M. Brown

JASON M. BROWN {[email protected]} grew up in south￾ern California and served a mission in the Dominican Republic. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology. He is currently finishing his last semester as a joint Master of Forestry/Master of Arts in Reli￾gion at Yale University. Upon graduation he hopes to write, teach, and do community forestry work in the Intermountain West.

Whither Mormon Environmental Theology?

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 2

Ecological theologian and cultural historian Thomas Berry has suggested that we are entering the “Ecozoic” age, which he defines as “that period when humans would be present on the earth in a mutually enhancing manner.”Here Berry is expressing a hope that human creativity can transcend the destructive and short-sighted culture of the modern age, which has precipitated the greatest environmental crisis in human existence—a crisis that recently featured the largest oil spill in U.S. history. By mutually enhancing, Berry means not simply a benign human presence on the earth, but the emergence of an ecological consciousness that nests the human economy into the larger earth system, a sort of human-earth symbiosis.

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