I don't think that Jesus was any sort of ecological ideal. The world had so few people in it that overpopulation was not a problem. It took most people all morning just to fix lunch.
But we do really need to begin a serious program to end dependence on oil. Not oil from the Middle East, Venezuela or wherever, dependence on oil as a fuel, and everything else non-renewable.
The essence of business is to grow, grow, grow. This road leads to disaster. Growth of a company can be either the expansion of the total pie, or robbing slices from the competition. Since we are running out of non-renewable resources, it is absolutely essential that we concentrate on RENEWABLE ones. Population growth must be slowed, and if at all possible, reversed, so that there are enough renewable resources to permit everyone a decent and rewarding life.
Businesses can grow only to the degree that they use renewable resources and their products represent a betterment of the human condition. This is not an end to growth, but it certainly requires a massive change in the way the economic system works, and the sooner this can take place, the better.
I would not expect the companies mining the Athabaska Tar Sands to view any part of this as a good thing, since it would represent their extinction, at least until such a time as CO2 emissions can be reduced to zero and petrochemicals are used just for recyclable plastics and the like. I would not think that the bottled water industry would delight in these changes, either.