New Film about the Religious Cause of the Recent Flooding on the Somerset Levels
A new film by the Director on the religious cause of the recent flooding on the Somerset Levels is available from the Media/Films page. The film is an explanation of how changes in society's religious world-view in the late twentieth century (from the old Christian view that man should exercise dominion over the earth to the view that Nature has priority and that man should not interfere with Nature) has led to the acceptance of different priorities in managing the environment on the Somerset Levels. The prioritising of wetland wildlife over the needs of the communities and farmland led to a deliberate policy of letting the Levels flood more frequently. It is this change of policy, underpinned by a change of religious world-view regarding what should have priority, wildlife or humans, that has led to the recent flooding, which has been devastating for the communities and farms on the Levels.