A friend has forwarded me this link to an article about Tolkien and Lewis as eco-warriors, fighting the good fight for God’s Creation. Tolkien and Lewis were good and healthy tree-huggers in the true Christian sense that unites them to St. Francis and all those who put God’s Creatures before Man’s Machines:
Tolkien & Lewis as Tree-Huggers
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Joseph Pearce is a Catholic author and biographer who has written about subjects as various as GK Chesterton, economics, and Shakespeare.
“Good and healthy tree-huggers”– I love it! I just finished re-reading “That Hideous Strength”, in which (among other things) Filostrato talks about replacing all natural things (something along the lines of “replacing nasty, dirty organic life with nice clean machines”). (It also makes me think of Saruman’s treatment of the Shire, and of Lewis’s poem “Prelude to Space”.) It’s very interesting to me that trendy thought has shifted from holding that humanity needs to impose its will on nature (1920s?) to holding that humanity is an evil destroyer of nature and should be restrained (environmentalism)– the pendulum swings!