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