An Anthropocentric Approach to Christian Religion, Forest, Environmental Conservation and Climate Change in Kolo Creek.

Abstract:

This study tries to examine anthropocentricism as an environmental ethical theory which is applied by the Christian Religion towards the treatment of the environment particularly in terms of the disvirgining of the virgin forest that adds to the survival and existence of man. The study adopted expository, textual analysis and empirical method. The study revealed that Christian Religion with the adoption of the anthropocentric theory sees man as the center of value and that all the virgin forests which contain non-human creatures that contribute to man’s survival and existence, the ecosystem, the food chain and the interdependence of man with its environment and surrounding that leads to the improvement of the ozone layer and the improvement of climate change is destroyed and decimated by man due to the imbibing of the Christian Religion and the discarding of the African Traditional Religion by the Kolo Creek Clan people. Therefore, it concluded that there should be a balance between the Christian Religious doctrines as practiced in Africa.