Today's date:
 
Winter 1998
• POST GLOBALIZATION
• COMMENTARIES 2001-2007
• MADE IN CHINA
• THE TWO SOULS OF TURKEY
• THE NEW GLOBAL CINEMA
• MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK
• DE-GLOBALIZE THE JIHAD
• THE THIRD WAVE'S THIRD WAY
• PLANET OF SLUMS
• THE GLOBAL IDEOLOGY
     OF FEAR
• THE OTHER
• POST-NATIONAL
    LITERATURE
• COLLAPSE OR MASSIVE
    CHANGE?
• THE RISE AND FALL OF
    AMERICA'S SOFT POWER
• THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION
• PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
• THE HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY
• SCULPTURE AND THE
     NEW SCIENCE
• BIOTECH AND THE
     NEW BABEL
• WAR THROUGH THE
     BACK DOOR
• ANTIAMERICANISM
• THE RISING SOFT POWER
     OF CHINA & INDIA
• THE BUSH DOCTRINE
• FAIRNESS IN A FRAGILE
    WORLD
• AMERICA'S MIGHT
• ISLAM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
• ANTIGLOBOS
• HOT PEACE
• MODUS VIVENDI
• LOOKING NORTH
• FROM WELL HAVING TO
     WELL BEING
• POST-HUMAN HISTORY
• GLOBAPHOBIA
• THE GLOBAL MIND
• AFTER KOSOVO
• FROM VIETNAM TO KOSOVO
• DEGLOBALIZATION?
• THE RISE OF THE MEDIA-
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
• BOOM [NUCLEAR] AND
    [BUST] ECONOMIC IN ASIA
• BEYOND CAPITALISM
• ASIAN CRISIS
• CHINA: THE ASIAN
     RENAISSANCE
• SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL
• ECLIPSE OF THE BIG
    PICTURE
• AFTER THE END OF
    HISTORY
• THE EAST IS RED AGAIN
• HALF-A-HEGEMON
• THIRD WAVE TERRORISM
• HEIMAT
• Fall 1987
• Winter 1987
• Spring 1986
• Fall-Winter '84-'85
• Spring 1984


From Behind the Cyrillic Curtain: The Green Patriarch Speaks

Bartholomew I, the Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch, is the spiritual leader of the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians. He has been called the "Green Patriarch" because of his outspoken concern about the environment.

His contributions here are adapted from an address last November at an environmental symposium in California co-sponsored by Jean-Michel Cousteau and US Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and from earlier pronouncements by the patriarch.

Because of the "Cyrillic curtain," Bartholomew's views are little known in the English-speaking world that defines global culture.

Istanbul - Human beings and the environment form a seamless garment of existence, a complex fabric that we believe is fashioned by God.

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