The relationship between religion and environment correlates to what is right and wrong. Often in today's world, people fail to see the difference between right and wrong, which causes our world to suffer drastically. It is sad to think that we ditch the values that we are taught throughout our childhood, all in the name of greed. The balance between environment and religion exists on the line of morality. It is not necessarily what one believes but what one does. The environment is being destroyed today all because people don't know or understand how to overcome greed. People will put money over the people that surround them any day just because the human mind struggles with thinking in an appropriate manner. Everything that we choose to do, say, and believe has an effect on the world that surrounds us whether we realize it or not.
There is a saying that goes, " Greed is human nature" and this statement is 100% true. The basic definition of greed is putting one's personal interest over another. With that being said, everything that we do as humans we do for as an act of greed, whether we realize it or not. There is always a choice to be made; feed your children for 5$ or feed 100 African children for 5$. Most people would feed their children for 5$, which is definitely understandable because I would do the same thing to, but can't this be justified as an act of greed? Can anyone say with sheer resiliency that one life is of definite value over any other? I guess the point I'm trying to make is that when there is a choice to be made that effects our personal interests, we will always value our personal interests over something that might deem to be just as equivalent in value based off of the concept that the human nature of greed is instilled within us.
Just to be clear I'm not saying that everyone is a bad person for being greedy, greed is a loaded word that can often be misinterpreted. I'm just simply pointing out a different perspective behind the word that may not be recognized or understood.
I agree with what you are saying on the moral basis but going by the prompt of "is there a relationship between religion and the environment" I would say yes there is. Religions believe that a greater being created the earth, and people who dis-respect the land, I believe are being disrespectful to the greater being they follow.
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