Moral ground : ethical action for a planet in peril

Moral ground Ethical action for a planet in peril

Book - 2010

"An anthology bringing together the testimony of over eighty theologians, religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturalists, activists, and writers to present a diverse and compelling call to honor humans' moral responsibility to the planet in the face of environmental degradation, species extinction, and global climate change"--Provided by publisher.

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Subjects
Environmental ethics.
Environmental responsibility.
Published
San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity University Press [2010]
Language
English
Other Authors
Kathleen Dean Moore (-), Michael P. Nelson, 1966-
Physical Description
xxiv, 478 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781595340665
9781595340856
  • 1. The limits of growth / James Gustave Speth
  • The danger of human exceptionalism / Daniel Quinn
  • A question of our own survival / The Dalai Lama
  • The fate of creation is the fate of humanity / E.O. Wilson
  • The Inuit right to culture based on ice and snow / Sheila Watt-Cloutier
  • The future I want for my daughters / Barack Obama
  • Obligation to posterity? / Alan Weisman
  • 2. Keepers of life / Oren Lyons
  • We bear you in mind / Scott Russell Sanders
  • For the children / Gary Snyder
  • Steering the earth toward our children's future / John Paul II and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
  • A letter to my boys / Hylton Murray-Philipson
  • You choose / Derrick Jensen
  • 3. Sky / Brian Turner
  • A hinge point of history / Holmes Rolston III
  • The planet is shouting but nobody listens / F. Stuart Chapin III
  • The bells of mindfulness / Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Restoration and redemption / Robin Morris Collin
  • A Copernican revolution in ethics / Kate Rawles
  • 4. Wild things for their own sakes / Dave Foreman
  • Spray glue goes. Maggots stay / Carly Lettero
  • Ornithophilia / Shepard Krech III
  • Heirloom chile peppers and climate change / Gary Paul Nabhan
  • Imagining Darwin's ethics / David Quammen
  • Evening falls on the maladaptive ape / Robert Michael Pyle
  • 5. To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin / Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
  • Sacred ancestors, sacred homes / Nirmal Selvamony
  • The giveaway / Robin W. Kimmerer
  • From the mountain, a covenant / Courtney S. Campbell
  • So the future can come forth from the ground / Deborah Bird Rose
  • A conference in time / Ursula K. Le Guin
  • 6. A newt note / Brian Doyle
  • Worship the earth / John Perry
  • Something braver than trying to save the world / Bill McKibben
  • Peace and sustainability depend on the spiritual and the feminine / Massoumeh Ebtekar
  • A life worth living / Dale Jamieson
  • Who we really are / Thomas L. Friedman
  • 7. An American Indian cultural universe / George Tinker
  • No separation between present and future / Fred W. Allendorf
  • A transformational ecology / Jonathan F.P. Rose
  • Why should I inconvenience myself? / Mary Catherine Bateson
  • Extra! Extra! New consciousness needed / Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
  • Just a few more yards / Edwin P. Pister
  • Why sacrifice for future generations? / Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni
  • Hope and the new energy economy / Jesse M. Fink
  • 8. A manifesto to North American middle-class Christians / Sallie McFague
  • God's passion in the Bible : the world / Marcus J. Borg
  • Our obligation to tomorrow / Seyyed Hossein Nasr
  • The biblical mandate for creation care / Tri Robinson
  • Will religions guide us on our dangerous journey? / Martin S. Kaplan
  • 9. Winter wheat / Libby Roderick
  • We are called to help the earth to heal / Wangari Maathai
  • An invisible killer / Ming Xu, Xin Wei
  • Climate change is a moral problem for you, right now / James Garvey
  • From engagement to emancipation / Sulak Sivaraksa
  • The architecture of language, parts 9 and 10 / Quincy Troupe
  • 10. Ethics as if tomorrow mattered / Carl Pope
  • Sustainability as a founding principle of the United States / Michael M. Crow
  • Climate change and intergenerational responsibility / Steve Vanderheiden
  • Still an American dilemma / Lauret Savoy
  • There is a tide / Ismail Serageldin
  • A fair deal / Peter Singer
  • The moral climate / Carl Safina
  • 11. Our Edens : ecological homes / Bernd Heinrich
  • Wolves, ravens, and a new purpose for science / John A. Vucetich
  • Get dirty, get dizzy / Hank Lentfer
  • The feasting / Alison Hawthorne Deming
  • 12. Changing ethics for a changing world / J. Baird Callicott
  • Touching the earth / bell hooks
  • Love, grief, and climate change / Katie McShane
  • For the love and beauty of nature / Stephen R. Kellert
  • Earth religion and radical religious reformation / Bron Taylor
  • A promise made in love, awe, and fear / Wendell Berry
  • The call to forgiveness at the end of the day / Kathleen Dean Moore
  • 13. The great work / Thomas Berry
  • An ethic of the earth / N. Scott Momaday
  • Spring's hopes eternal / Curt Meine
  • Dawn for all time / Linda Hogan
  • The universe story and planetary civilization / Mary Evelyn Tucker, Brian Swimme
  • 14. Moral responsibility is the price of progress / Ernest Partridge
  • Climate change : what is required of us? / Terry Tempest Williams
  • Being cool in the face of global warming / David James Duncan
  • Everything must go / Paul B. Thompson
  • The no-man's-land of ethics / Joerg Chet Tremmel
  • The advocacy responsibility of the scientist / José Galizia Tundisi
  • How to be hopeful / Barbara Kingsolver
  • To a future without hope / Michael P. Nelson
  • The most amazing challenge / Paul Hawken.

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