Down to the wire : confronting climate collapse / David - Index of

252 S index
Council of Elders, 209–10
Council on Environmental Quality,
xi–xii, 43
Council on Sustainable Development,
xvii
creation care, 128
Crow, Michael, 176
crowds, wisdom of, 60–61
Crow people, 173
Cuban missile crisis, 165
cultural narrative
of addiction, 172–73
behavior infl uenced by, 171–72
of cancer, 172
of Plenty Coups, 173
Custer, George Armstrong, 122
Dahl, Robert, 207
Dalai Lama, 201
Daly, Herman, 31, 82, 136, 196, 204
Darby, John Nelson, 129
Dawkins, Richard, 133
debt
ecological, 30, 204
mathematical laws and, 82
national, 26–27
decision making, elite, 165
deliberation day, 64–65
demand creation, 50–51
demand-side management, 214
democracy
alternatives to, 55–60
Constitution and, 14
criticisms of, 51, 68
future of, 65, 72
long emergency and, 54
restoration of, 60–68
suspicion of, 16
upsurge in, 49–50
Democrats, 68, 75
denial, 158, 163–64
Depression, 93–94
design revolution, 56–57
destiny, 9
desubsidization, of fossil fuels, 210
Deuteronomy, 127
Diamond, Jared, 54
dispensationalism, 129
divergent problems, 194
Douglas, Stephen, 84–85
drought, 18, 20
Duncan, David James, 130
Earth Atmospheric Trust, 209
Earth Charter, 90
Earth Day, 79
Earth Systems Science Agency, 209
Ecclesiastes, 192
ecological capital, 59
ecological debt, 30, 204
ecological design, 56–57
economy
as biosphere subsystem, 196–97
bottom line of, 196
contraction and growth of, 29–31,
105, 196
defi cits and, 203–4
green, 197
laissez-faire theories of, 206
locally based, 212
nonviolent, 202
outdated doctrine of, 106
shelf life of ideas about, 77–83
slow, 80–81
steady-state, 30, 224n22
2008 collapse of, xvi, 25, 28, 56
ecosystems
carrying capacity of, 192
degradation of, 18, 21–22, 121
Ecuador, 208
education
applied hope in, 192
changes in, 160, 176–77
importance of, 160
by president, 211
Ehrenfeld, David, 137