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  • 11 - Protestantism, Environmentalism,and Limits to Growth

  • from Part II - Histories
  • Edited by Alexander J. B. Hampton, University of Toronto, Douglas Hedley, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment
    Published online:
    21 July 2022
    Print publication:
    04 August 2022, pp 163-180

  • Summary

    In the mid-1860s, as Britain enjoyed global power thanks to coal-fueled industrial capitalism and as American industrialization was poised to take off, George Perkins Marsh of Vermont in America and William Stanley Jevons from Liverpool in Britain published books that warned unsustainable use of natural resources threatened to impoverish future generations. Their Reformed Protestantism upbringing, descended from forebears’ Puritanism, had instilled in both Marsh and Jevons perspectives and values that informed their analyses and solutions. Since their publication, their books’ reputation has risen with concern for the environment and about limits to growth. They remain valuable and relevant today.