Jones, Teddy2019-09-252019-09-252016-07-0720160799-1711http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/154397"It is rather instructive that as I was in the throes of preparing this paper the world observed Earth Day 2015. According to Gnanakan (2004) on 22 April 1970 the first Earth Day, twenty million Americans went into the streets and into the parks and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment. That first Earth day claims to have achieved a rare political alignment, enlisting the support of all political parties in the US, rich and poor, urban dweller and farmers. (Gnanakan 2004, 15). Some forty-five years later the day passed by in the United States without much fanfare and in Jamaica even less of a whimper"engWith permission of the license/copyright holderTheologyEnvironmentJamaicaclimate changePolitical ethicsReligious ethicsEnvironmental ethicsResources ethicsBiblical TheologyArticle