With its splendid list of learned and wise contributors, and its focus on perhaps the single most important religious, moral, and political question of our time, this volume makes a highly significant contribution. We are fortunate to have it. -- Roger S. Gottlieb, author of A Greener Faith, Engaging Voices: Tales of Morality and Meaning of Age of Global Warming, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Humanities and Arts, Worcester Polytechnic Institute From the Foreword on, this book challenges--from multiple perspectives--the prevailing 'modern' paradigm of ecological and social individualism. Individual affluence is not sustainable in a milieu of widening human deprivation and ecological collapse; nor will your well-meaning voluntary individual self-restraint stanch poverty, pollution, and climate change. Only with a visceral collective recognition that we are all embedded absolutely and inextricably in complex, interdependent eco-social networks--accompanied by determined collective action--will there emerge genuine ecologies of human flourishing. -- J. Baird Callicott, author of Beyond the Land Ethic: More Essays in Environmental Philosophy, University Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas
Donald K. Swearer is Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions and Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Swarthmore College. Susan Lloyd McGarry is Managing Editor in the Office of Communications at Harvard Divinity School. Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature at Harvard University. Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., is Kolokotrones University Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Editor-in-Chief of Health and Human Rights: An International Journal.
With its splendid list of learned and wise contributors, and its
focus on perhaps the single most important religious, moral, and
political question of our time, this volume makes a highly
significant contribution. We are fortunate to have it. -- Roger S.
Gottlieb, author of A Greener Faith, Engaging Voices: Tales of
Morality and Meaning of Age of Global Warming, Professor of
Philosophy, Department of Humanities and Arts, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute
From the Foreword on, this book challenges--from multiple
perspectives--the prevailing 'modern' paradigm of ecological and
social individualism. Individual affluence is not sustainable in a
milieu of widening human deprivation and ecological collapse; nor
will your well-meaning voluntary individual self-restraint stanch
poverty, pollution, and climate change. Only with a visceral
collective recognition that we are all embedded absolutely and
inextricably in complex, interdependent eco-social
networks--accompanied by determined collective action--will there
emerge genuine ecologies of human flourishing. -- J. Baird
Callicott, author of Beyond the Land Ethic: More Essays in
Environmental Philosophy, University Distinguished Research
Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies,
University of North Texas
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