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the spirit of connection S 135 regard the same evidence as a sign of the fulfi llment of prophecy about the end times and the imminent return of Christ. But the differences between environmentalists and even some end-times fundamentalists are less than one might think (see table 5.1). TABLE 5.1 Differences between environmentalists and end-times fundamentalists Dynamics/drivers Population Economic Environmentalists Fundamentalists growth Sin/evil/Satan Source of problem Lack of knowledge Policy failures Market failures Human evil Model Ecosystems Battleground: good v. evil Biosphere Earth as fallen, heaven as true reality Remedy Better science Individual salvation Better policy Redemption Prices that tell the Christ’s coming truth Tools Government policy Christian education Economic policy Redemption Education Outcomes Sixth extinction spasm, etc. Armageddon, Second Coming . . . Heat death of Earth Goals Sustainability Bring on the end Ironies Little connection between deeper levels of human motivation and ecological problems times The end times become a self-fulfi lling prophecy
S 136 connections Can one be an evangelical, for example, and a good environmentalist? Having known many who are both, I can say that the answer is “yes.” But reconciling religious doctrine at the extreme with the goals of conservation requires some heroic intellectual acrobatics. On one side, belief that the end times are near tends to make extreme fundamentalists careless stewards of our forests, soils, wildlife, air, water, seas, and climate. It is a great deal easier to be concerned about conserving the Creation if one assumes that: (a) Earth is God’s handiwork; (b) we are called to be good stewards of it and pass it on undiminished; and (c) humankind will be around for a while to enjoy nature and perhaps even be uplifted by it. Fundamentalists’ belief in the end times, in other words, has the paradoxical effect of justifying behavior that brings on the end times, but of a sort with no authentic Biblical basis. The destruction of the Creation because of hard-heartedness and indifference to life is a sin against God and a crime against humanity. Further, careless talk about the imminence of Armageddon suggests a darker fascination with death, militarization, and violence discordant with the ideas of loving one’s neighbor and the blessedness of the peacemakers. Environmentalists, too, are in a quandary. For decades they have documented in great detail the decline of one life form or another and the destruction of ecosystems, but they are often tongue-tied on the deeper questions about the causes and forces driving the destruction of nature and climate change. They talk, instead, about changing economic policy, enforcing laws and regulations, adopting better technology, and improving science education, assuming that no further improvement of mind and spirit is necessary. Economist Herman Daly once said, “Affl icted with an infi nite itch, modern man is scratching in the wrong place” (Valuing the Earth, 1996, p. 155). Until we do, however, the deeper motivations and the deeper causes of our ecological problems will elude us, and so, too, will the broad public support necessary to address them. Without a clearer understanding of why people seek the
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Down to the Wire Confronting Climat
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For my grandchildren Lewis, Molly,
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Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments
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z Preface The ongoing disruption of
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preface S xi carbon footprint from
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preface S xiii disappearing species
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preface S xv breach between humanki
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preface S xvii country. And for no
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z Acknowledgments This book owes mu
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Down to the Wire
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Introduction There were rumors of u
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introduction S 3 preindustrial leve
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introduction S 5 have household, au
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introduction S 7 • Did little to
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introduction S 9 the leadership tha
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part 1 z POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE
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chapter 1 Governance We lack a theo
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governance S 15 regard for long-ter
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governance S 17 culture celebrated
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governance S 19 headlines of the fu
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governance S 21 excessive heat and
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governance S 23 extract, refi ne, t
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governance S 25 access to oil in or
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governance S 27 has been increased
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governance S 29 • Costs to human
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governance S 31 to the evidence of
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governance S 33 which may occur reg
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governance S 35 line. I write in th
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governance S 37 chairman of the U.K
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governance S 39 accountability. Onc
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governance S 41 secrecy, and incomp
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governance S 45 of his persuasion i
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governance S 47 one of whom does no
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chapter 2 Late-Night Thoughts about
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Preface 1. From different perspecti
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Sources Ackerman, Bruce, and James
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sources S 231 Briggs, John Channing
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sources S 235 Hansen, James. “Glo
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sources S 237 Kalinowski, Frank.
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sources S 243 Ruskin, John. Unto Th
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Index abortion, 51, 73-74 Abrams, N
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irreversibility of, 221n3 land use
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Einstein, Albert, 76, 195 electoral
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Buddhism, 180, 201 dialogue across,
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