Such identification is the theme of a famously influential essay by Lynn White, Jr. in the March 1967 issue of Science magazine entitled «The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,» an essay which
prompted a
reply by Thomas Derr in the January 1975 issue of Worldview magazine — which Richard Neuhaus, then a political liberal, edited
even before he edited This World, the immediate predecessor of First Things — entitled «Religion's Responsibility for the Ecological Crisis: An Argument Run Amok.»