God is Green

Tonight at 8pm on Channel 4 (for UK readers), Mark Dowd has written and presents a documentary entitled “God is Green”, which should be interesting viewing.

Dowd is a thinking Catholic, and once trained as a Dominican Friar, before going into journalism. I first came across him over a year ago, when he produced another documentary: “Tsunami: Where was God?”. It was fantastic, the best piece I have ever come across on how a loving God can allow natural disasters to occur like the Tsunami. He asks all the difficult questions, interviews and listens to people from all religions, and doesn’t come out with trite answers, but does come back to faith at the end. Brilliant. For a more comprehensive review, check out Jason Clark’s comments.

So this promises to be good too. You can read what Channel 4 have to say about it here, and this is blurb from the Radio Times:

“Why are the world’s religions so quiet on the subject of climate change? Inquisitive Catholic Mark Dowd takes a look at green issues through a religious prism and bemoans the lack of spiritual leadership on the issue. The highlight is his interview with a senior cardinal who, in the best traditions of Vatican encounters with the press, comes across as shifty, complacent and faintly sinister. The man the Holy See puts forward as its top dog on climate change chuckles at the thought of how many air miles he must clock up every month. No, really. Not that Islam or Hinduism do much better out of Dowd’s green audit. And sadly, it’s hard to see his film, engaging and powerfully written as it is, bringing any of them to their ethical senses any time soon.”

See here for my thoughts and review of the program.

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