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Ideas for discussion |
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1. We need more houses. Should we build them in the countryside or
should we try to find spaces for them close to the centre of towns? |
2. Are there places in the countryside that you particularly like?
Why? How would you feel if somewhere you specially liked were to be
chosen as the route for a motorway? |
3. Many Derbyshire villages have an annual festival when they "dress"
their well. Why do you suppose wells are celebrated and blessed at a
special feast? (You
can find out more about well-dressing here.) |
4. What seem to you the gravest threats to our environment? |
5. Jonathon Porritt, director of Forum for the Future, is giving a
lecture on Bringing Religion down to Earth.
What do you think it means to "bring religion down to earth"?
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6. How should we regard ourselves? Are we lords of the earth, free
to do exactly what we please with the resources of nature? Or are we a
part of nature ourselves so that we need to learn to live as one with
other living beings and with the earth? |
7. Should we try to foster a reverence for the natural world? If
so, what can we do to encourage others to respect and cherish it? |
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