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The Judeo-Christian Religion can also provide narratives where environmentally conscious behavior is justifiable. For example: The story of Joseph in Genesis 41 can be interpreted to describe how an administrator implementing a severe scheme of command-and-control regulation in order to avoid an irretrievable commitment of scarce natural resources (planting crops during the drought season) that otherwise would result in environmental degradation. By controlling the common pool via rationing the administrator, Joseph, is able to diffuse the famine.  This allows conservationists, religious leaders and ultimately listeners to draw modern parallels for other common pool resources such as air, water, land to rationalize and internalize the necessities of regulate common pool resources .

Depiction of typical processes involved in Ancient Egyptian agriculture

The modern approach of Judeo-Christian religion now encourages people to adopt a combination of altruistic and Ecocentric value orientation, because nature is now valued for its own sake and for the sakes of others and for future generations (stewardship ethic). Thus, reorienting the cultural belief system where now humans are neither above nor subordinate to nature, but ideally in a harmonious symbiotic relationship.