Word: conservationism
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Sanctified Fabric. The Bible, points out Old Testament Scholar Loren Fisher, tells of a "God of nature" as well as the more frequently emphasized "God of history." This God abhors pagan nature worship, but he decrees that all creation is good and holds his servant, man, accountable for what happens...
The Federal Power Commission is now reconsidering Consolidated Edison Company's eight-year-old request to take over 240 acres of a Harvard experimental forest in New York State for a hydro-electric project-and local conservation groups fear the plan is closer than ever to approval.
New York conservation groups have been bitterly fighting the Con Ed plan since 1962, turning it into an ecological cause celebre known as the "Storm King Mountain controversy." In 1965, they temporarily halted the project through court fights, but the new Con Ed challenge is conceded a far greater chance...
But conservation organizations have objected that the project would not only flood part of the Black Rock Forest, but would also disturb the local ecology.
The Storm King battle has produced a landmark in conservation law: In 1965 a federal court allowed a conservation organization to intervene on behalf of the public for the firsttime. The court also ordered the Federal Power Commission to reconsider the case, giving greater weight to environmental factors.