One consensus among the developed countries of the world is ‘to save the natural environment.' Now is a time of environmentalism. But it is not simple to define environmentalism with a few words or a sentence because of its vast spectrums of ideas and practices. For some people, this issue turns into spiritual movements of nature worship. In the meantime, industries approach this issue as an energy problem – an endeavour for renewable energy sources. Policymakers devise and impose regulations to control pollution and wastes. Activists campaign for population control. In sum, all of them are looking for new solutions to satisfy human demand for consumption at a sustainable level.

But this attempt faces at least two serious questions. First, who can control the human demand for consumption? Second, who decides a sustainable level of consumption?

Our contemporary world relies its existence on consumption. Under this pandemic, we hear the word, essential, much more often than before. Mostly what do we call essential? Mostly they are related to consumption, either products or services. Consumption itself is what is essential. Not human survival but the survival of money and the market is what matters.

Is consumption a living organism? No. Its soul is human greed. If we do not tame this greed, this beast of consumption will continue devouring God’s creation. Greed does not know satisfaction.  Any kind of environmentalism would not be successful unless it addresses the control of human greed. God created order and harmony in the universe and nature. But greed itself is chaotic and disordered. There cannot be a ‘green deal’ for a world of greedy consumption. God creates. Greed only consumes.