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0308.html). It seeks to bring about “a sustainable world”through dialogue between leaders in the fields ofreligion, politics, industry, science, art, education, andjournalism.At the International Conference on Global Security andSustainable Development, held in Moscow in February2008, Matsumura said that the idea that one religion isgreater than another is an “illusion” (“Akio Matsumura’sAddress to the International Conference on GlobalSecurity and Sustainable Development:http://www.maximsnews.com/107akiomatsumuramarch09.htm).Its first Global Survival Conference, in Oxford, England,in 1988, was co-sponsored by the Temple ofUnderstanding. It featured the Dalai Lama, MotherTeresa, the very liberal Robert Runcie, the Archbishop ofCanterbury, New Age astronomer Carl Sagan, earthworshipingscientist James Lovelock, and a hodgepodgeor other “spiritual and legislative leaders.”Lovelock is the founder of the modern earth-worshipingGaia movement. His book The Ages of Gaia (1982)postulates that the earth is a living organism which hasthe capacity to heal itself under natural conditions butthat man’s technology has overwhelmed it and doomed it84
to destruction without radical intervention (Henry Lamb,The Rise of Global Green Religion, http://freedom.org/reports/ggreligion.htm). Lovelock believes that Gaia is aspirit goddess that began evolving life on earth billions ofyears ago and that everything on earth is part of Gaia.Lovelock told the Global Survival Conference, “OnEarth, she is the source of life everlasting and is alivenow; she gave birth to humankind and we are a part ofher” (Shared Vision, Global Forum of Spiritual andParliamentary Leaders on Human Survival, vol. 3, no. 1,1989, p. 3).The Global Forum held another conference in 1990, thistime in Moscow. It was co-sponsored by the Temple ofUnderstanding and the UN Global Committee ofParliamentarians on Population and Development. AlGore was there. Mikhail Gorbachev waved hisenvironmental flag by calling for an “International GreenCross,” an NGO agency to protect “endangered lifeforms.” The 700 “spiritual and parliamentary” leadersincluded UN General Secretary Javier Perez de Cuellar,Carl Sagan, the Grand Mufti of Fyria, Catholic CardinalJoseph Bernadine, Ronald Thiemann, dean of theHarvard Divinity School, James Hansen of NASA, andatheist Stephen Gould of Harvard University. Sagancalled on scientists and religious leaders to join hands in85
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to destruction without radical intervention (Henry Lamb,<strong>The</strong> Rise <strong>of</strong> Global Green Religion, http://freedom.org/reports/ggreligion.htm). Lovelock believes that Gaia is aspirit goddess that began evolving life on earth billions <strong>of</strong>years ago and that everything on earth is part <strong>of</strong> Gaia.Lovelock told the Global Survival Conference, “OnEarth, she is the source <strong>of</strong> life everlasting and is alivenow; she gave birth to humankind and we are a part <strong>of</strong>her” (Shared Vision, Global Forum <strong>of</strong> Spiritual andParliamentary Leaders on Human Survival, vol. 3, no. 1,1989, p. 3).<strong>The</strong> Global Forum held another conference in 1990, thistime in Moscow. It was co-sponsored by the Temple <strong>of</strong>Understanding and the UN Global Committee <strong>of</strong>Parliamentarians on Population and Development. AlGore was there. Mikhail Gorbachev waved hisenvironmental flag by calling for an “International GreenCross,” an NGO agency to protect “endangered lifeforms.” <strong>The</strong> 700 “spiritual and parliamentary” leadersincluded UN General Secretary Javier Perez de Cuellar,Carl Sagan, the Grand Mufti <strong>of</strong> Fyria, Catholic CardinalJoseph Bernadine, Ronald Thiemann, dean <strong>of</strong> theHarvard Divinity School, James Hansen <strong>of</strong> NASA, andatheist Stephen Gould <strong>of</strong> Harvard University. Sagancalled on scientists and religious leaders to join hands in85
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