Foreword xiii
Desmond Tutu
Introduction xv
Do we have a moral obligation to take action to protect the future of a planet in peril?
1 Yes, for the survival of humankind.
1(39)
James Gustave Speth
The Limits of Growth
3(6)
Daniel Quinn
The Danger of Human Exceptionalism
9(6)
The Dalai Lama
A Question of Our Own Survival
15(6)
E.O. Wilson
The Fate of Creation Is the Fate of Humanity
21(4)
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
The Inuit Right to Culture Based on Ice and Snow
25(5)
Barack Obama
The Future I Want for My Daughters
30(2)
Alan Weisman
Obligation to Posterity?
32(10)
Ethical Action
38(2)
2 Yes, for the sake of the children.
40(27)
Oren Lyons
Keepers of Life
42(3)
Scott Russell Sanders
We Bear You in Mind
45(5)
Gary Snyder
Far the Children
50(1)
John Paul II
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
Steering the Earth Toward Our Children's Future
51(4)
Hylton Murray-Philipson
A Letter to My Boys
55(5)
Derrick Jensen
You Choose
60(9)
Ethical Action
65(2)
3 Yes, for the sake of the Earth itself.
67(31)
Brian Turner
Sky
69(1)
Holmes Rolston III
A Hinge Point of History
70(5)
F. Stuart Chapin III
The Planet Is Shouting but Nobody Listens
75(4)
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Bells of Mindfulness
79(3)
Robin Morris Collin
Restoration and Redemption
82(6)
Kate Rawles
A Copernican Revolution in Ethics
88(12)
Ethical Action
96(2)
4 Yes, for the sake of all forms of life on the planet
98(33)
Dave Foreman
Wild Things for Their Own Sakes
100(3)
Carly Lettero
Spray Glue Goes. Maggots Stay.
103(5)
Shepard Krech III
Ornithophilia
108(7)
Gary Paul Nabhan
Heirloom Chile Peppers and Climate Change
115(4)
David Quammen
Imagining Darwin's Ethics
119(4)
Robert Michael Pyle
Evening Falls on the Maladaptive Ape
123(10)
Ethical Action
129(2)
5 Yes, to honor our duties of gratitude and reciprocity.
131(34)
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
To Commit a Crime Against the Natural World Is a Sin
133(4)
Nirmal Selvamony
Sacred Ancestors, Sacred Homes
137(4)
Robin W. Kimmerer
The Giveaway
141(5)
Courtney S. Campbell
From the Mountain, a Covenant
146(8)
Deborah Bird Rose
So the Future Can Come Forth from the Ground
154(4)
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Conference in Time
158(9)
Ethical Action
163(2)
6 Yes, for the full expression of human virtue.
165(29)
Brian Doyle
A Newt Note
167(2)
John Perry
Worship the Earth
169(5)
Bill McKibben
Something Braver Than Trying to Save the World
174(4)
Massoumeh Ebtekar
Peace and Sustainability Depend on the Spiritual and the Feminine
178(5)
Dale Jamieson
A Life Worth Living
183(6)
Thomas L. Friedman
Who We Really Are
189(7)
Ethical Action
192(2)
7 Yes, because all flourishing is mutual.
194(47)
George Tinker
An American Indian Cultural Universe
196(6)
Fred W. Allendorf
No Separation Between Present and Future
202(5)
Jonathan F.P. Rose
A Transformational Ecology
207(4)
Mary Catherine Bateson
Why Should I Inconvenience Myself?
211(6)
Angayuqaq Oscar
Kawagley Extra! Extra! New Consciousness Needed
217(3)
Edwin P. Pister
Just a Few More Yards
220(5)
Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni
Why Sacrifice for Future Generations?
225(5)
Jesse M. Fink
Hope and the New Energy Economy
230(13)
Ethical Action
239(2)
8 Yes, for the stewardship of God's creation.
241(27)
Sallie McFague
A Manifesto to North American Middle-Class Christians
243(7)
Marcus J. Borg
God's Passion in the Bible: The World
250(4)
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Our Obligation to Tomorrow
254(6)
Tri Robinson
The Biblical Mandate for Creation Care
260(3)
Martin S. Kaplan
Will Religions Guide Us on Our Dangerous Journey?
263(6)
Ethical Action
267(1)
9 Yes, because compassion requires it.
268(24)
Libby Roderick
Winter Wheat
269(2)
Wangari Maathai
We Are Called to Help the Earth to Heal
271(4)
Ming Xu
Xin Wei
An Invisible Killer
275(4)
James Garvey
Climate Change Is a Moral Problem for You, Right Now
279(4)
Sulak Sivaraksa
From Engagement to Emancipation
283(3)
Quincy Troupe
The Architecture of Language, Parts 9 and 10
286(8)
Ethical Action
290(2)
10 Yes, because justice demands it.
292(37)
Carl Pope
Ethics as if Tomorrow Mattered
294(7)
Michael M. Crow
Sustainability as a Founding Principle of the United States
301(5)
Steve Vanderheiden
Climate Change and Intergenerational Responsibility
306(6)
Lauret Savoy
Still an American Dilemma
312(5)
Ismail Serageldin
There Is a Tide
317(4)
Peter Singer
A Fair Deal
321(3)
Carl Safina
The Moral Climate
324(7)
Ethical Action
327(2)
11 Yes, because the world is beautiful.
329(25)
Bernd Heinrich
Our Edens: Ecological Homes
331(6)
John A. Vucetich
Wolves, Ravens, and a New Purpose for Science
337(6)
Hank Lentfer
Get Dirty, Get Dizzy
343(4)
Alison Hawthorne
Deming The Feasting
347(9)
Ethical Action
352(2)
12 Yes, because we love the world.
354(41)
J. Baird Callicott
Changing Ethics for a Changing World
356(7)
bell hooks
Touching the Earth
363(6)
Katie McShane
Love, Grief, and Climate Change
369(4)
Stephen R. Kellert
For the Love and Beauty of Nature
373(6)
Bron Taylor
Earth Religion and Radical Religious Reformation
379(8)
Wendell Berry
A Promise Made in Love, Awe, and Fear
387(3)
Kathleen Dean Moore
The Call to Forgiveness at the End of the Day
390(6)
Ethical Action
394(1)
13 Yes, to honor and celebrate the Earth and Earth systems.
395(24)
Thomas Berry
The Great Work
396(4)
N. Scott Momaday
An Ethic of the Earth
400(3)
Curt Meine
Spring's Hopes Eternal
403(4)
Linda Hogan
Dawn for All Time
407(3)
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Brian Swimme
The Universe Story and Planetary Civilization
410(11)
Ethical Action
417(2)
14 Yes, because our moral integrity requires us to do what is right.
419(52)
Ernest Partridge
Moral Responsibility Is the Price of Progress
421(8)
Terry Tempest Williams
Climate Change: What Is Required of Us?
429(5)
David James Duncan
Being Cool in the Face of Global Warming
434(6)
Paul B. Thompson
Everything Must Go
440(4)
Joerg Chet Tremmel
The No-Man's-Land of Ethics
444(4)
Jose Galizia Tundisi
The Advocacy Responsibility of the Scientist
448(4)
Barbara Kingsolver
How to Be Hopeful
452(6)
Michael P. Nelson
To a Future Without Hope
458(5)
Paul Hawken
The Most Amazing Challenge
463(8)
Ethical Action
469(2)
Acknowledgments 471(2)
Credits 473(2)
List of Contributors 475