Herlihy article
I think it's interesting how Herlihy talks about what the Christians believed about environmental thought in the beginning of Christianity. The way I've always thought about christianity and the environment is that God gave his people command over the earth to take care of his creation. I think this is the more modern understanding of this verse he quotes from Genesis on page 102. But the way White reads this verse is that God gave man his creation to use for his own gain. I think this is interesting because I have never heard that reading of this verse before and it kind of shocked me at first. But I do agree with Herlihy that theologians are more concerned with man's sins then they are with nature, and that's why this reading is not very popular. Theologians were more concerned with overpopulation than they were with how humans were treating God's creation. I think they thought the world would end far sooner than man can destroy the earth.