Thomas Berry on Nature and Humans - Subtitled Interview

In this interview (with subtitles), eco-theologian Thomas Berry speaks about the need to expand our ideas about 'rights' and accept that other species should also have rights; they should have legal standing. Indeed, whole eco-systems such as a river or a coral reef could have a new legal status and gain stronger protection. Humans, he says, are here for the perfection of the Earth, not the other way round. Earth is not simply to be used. That path will lead the human to a state of acute spiritual illness, if not physical death. To see more about Thomas Berry, visit http://earth-community.org where you may also purchase a DVD with this interview and the musical slide-show, also here on YouTube. The DVD can be used for teaching and presentations.

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[mithoting]

Thank you, from the greatest point of appreciation. We have so little to learn great things and this is one of them.

[Video2Webb]

Thank you for your comment. Appreciated. Thomas Berry is a voice for the integral Earth.

[davidscottlevi]

God bless you, Thomas Berry. You've helped our lost culture find a tiny little chance of getting things right before it is truly and irrevocably too late for our species and much of the community of life on this beautiful planet. You will always be with us as a cherished and honored ancestor.

[harpogroucho]

RIP oh memorable unique one!!

[Nickingeorge]

@HolyCatholicApostoli

First off: You are a troll, this is entirely unrelated.

Second off: You are trying (but failing) to use the support for this man to gain support for your own cause.

Third off: You obviously are on youtube just to do this exact thing, as seen from the prior two points and your username.

Fourth off: GTFO/STFU.

[clivejohnson000]

@HolyCatholicApostoli

48 million, 48 trillion, it matters not. What matters is whether we're able to make this planet livable for the people who will be living here.

[reivenlocke]

Seeing how he always bellyached about how much better the earth and humans were better back then, he should have built a time machine and lived in the Dark Ages with once a year baths, the Black Plague, and the Spanish Inquisition and enjoy the throwback lifestyle he romanticized about rather than bitching about what pitiful excuses for humans we are in this time.

[HolyCatholicApostoli]

@harpogroucho

Save the Wales, Save the Trees, Save Aluminum Cans,

WHAT ABOUT SAVING HUMANS ??

STOP ABORTION 48 Million in USA Alone !! We can't see the wood for the trees.

Lets get our priorities right way up and not have a balls up!!

Visit Fr Thomas at Priests for Life and and Fr Frank Pavone at Human Life International (HLI) on the web and do something!

[HolyCatholicApostoli]

@harpogroucho

Save the Wales, Save the Trees, Save Aluminum Cans,

WHAT ABOUT SAVING HUMANS ??

STOP ABORTION 48 Million in USA Alone !! We can't see the wood for the trees.

Lets get our priorities right way up and not have a balls up!!

Visit Fr Thomas at Priests for Life and and Fr Frank Pavone at Human Life International (HLI) on the web and do something!

[gabepinnick]

Beautiful and brilliant

[C4SINISTAH]

Davidscottlevi you said it right- this is a great map of knowledge that people forget to follow or lead there lives - we are so dependent on the manufactured ways of living and we forget the balance of natural surroundings and the neglect of our planet.