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The World Exposition EXPO 2000 in Hanover adopted as its theme the relationships of humanity to nature and technology. This suggested making “nature and technology” a central theme of the inter-religious and “inter-philosophical” dialogue of the project Discourse of the World Religions before and during the World Exposition. The reasons for the occasion of the World Exposition and the systematic reasons for the centrality of the theme coincided. For the relationship of humans to nature is a central object of religious doctrine and ethics in all world religions. Since the religions respond to the neediness of human life, they cannot ignore the cause of this neediness, the tense relationship between the needs of our lives and the scope of the means in nature at our disposal. They cannot avoid addressing the relationship of the human person to nature and to technology as a means of increasing the yield from nature.
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Koslowski, P. (2001). Nature and Technology in the Religions. In: Koslowski, P. (eds) Nature and Technology in the World Religions. A Discourse of the World Religions, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2394-7_1
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