By Paul Wapner, Tikkun
Posted on June 15, 2010, Printed on June 17, 2010
http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/may2010wapner

Take your well-disciplined strengths

and stretch them between two opposing poles.

Because inside human beings

is where God learns.

—Rainer Maria Rilke

There is a battle going on for the soul of environmentalism. How it plays out will determine our ability to respond to a whole host of environmental dilemmas, especially climate change. All of us are partners in this struggle, since battle lines are being drawn not simply on the street or in policy debates but also inside each of us. We are torn between two visions of how to relate to the earth. Much depends on how we negotiate our way through the conflict.