b'N O I T C E L F E RGRE E N S OL IDARI T Yby Kathryn Lilla CoxOne valuable insight from liberation theology is that ones location infl uences what one perceives about reality, the way things work in the world. A single perspective is not enough for addressing issues and concerns and for implementing transformative change.If humans truly want to understand the implications of their work, inventions, and ecological and environmental policies, they need to speak with and listen to a broad cross section of people, especially the poor and the oppressed indeed the very people who are often most at risk and affected by environmental threats and degradation of creation.Humans need to see fellow humansthe poor, the vulnerable, the ones who look and speak differently from themas their brothers and sisters. When they can do this, then they can begin to listen to how their actions affect others and begin to create policy that does not privilege one way of life or one set of lives over another.This refl ection is an excerpt from Green Solidarity:Kathy Lilla Cox (PhD, Fordham Liberation Theology, the Ecological Crisis,University) is currently a and the Poor, by Kathryn Lilla Cox, in Greenvisiting research associate in Discipleship: Catholic Theological Ethics andthe Department of Theology the Environment, edited by Tobias Winrightand Religious Studies at the (Winona, MN: Anselm Academic 2011), 266- University of San Francisco.284. Copyright2011 by Anselm Academic. All rights reserved. www.anselmacademic.org36 AspireVolume 1//Winter 2020 Subscribe today!smp.org/aspire'