We know the earth is beautiful. We equate the livingness of it with beauty. When we mourn the loss of life, we also know that we mourn the loss of beauty. And we look to beauty as a marker of life, even life that has been badly mutilated.
2011
A New Future for Food
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Many happily munch on their hamburgers without a thought to the land destroyed for cattle grazing, or the immense cruelty in the raising and slaughter of the billions of animals we use for food each year. Mothers continue to prod their youngsters to eat their vegetables, unaware of the poisons involved in their production, not to mention the water and air.
2010
The Secret Life of Plants
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Is there a spiritual dimension to the story of the universe that biological evolution tells?
2010
Yankee Doodle Faced Big Oil
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The human race — not for the first time in our history — has lost the sacred sense of self-restraint. We don’t restrain ourselves. And what’s the result? The earth will give forth thorns and thistles, not abundance, and you will have to work with the sweat pouring down your faces to get just barely enough to eat.
2010
What It Will Take to Return the Globe to 350
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As much as I love the Network of Spiritual Progressives, I am not sure how much of a progressive I am. Seems to me that I spend almost all my time trying to keep things from changing, that in some deep sense I am a conservative—conserving the earth!
Articles
Eco-Enchantment and the Limits of Conservation
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“A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship With Nature” by James William Gibson and “Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples” by Mark Dowie: Reviews by Roger S. Gottlieb
2010
Disaster in the Gulf: A Plague to Warn Us to Change Our Relationship to the Earth
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Instead of messing around with partial measures, President Obama should transform our approach to the environment by orienting it around this key idea: the earth is not a “resource” to be used for private profit.
2010
Spirituality in a Time of Crisis
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It’s not self-sacrifice but liberation that the Tao and all deep spiritual wisdom offer us.
Facing climate change, we must free ourselves or collapse.
2010
How Much Change Will the Earth Require of Us?
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We will be so much better off psychologically when we give up our dreams of mastery
and come back to living within nature.
2010
Naturalism as Mastery?
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Traditional environmentalists’ “humility” is overrated: we have all too often made the world’s
poor and powerless pay for our environmental progress.
2010
Humility in a Climate Age
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Can the ambitious new environmental geo-engineering be suffused with a humble
awareness of our place within nature’s complexity?
2010
Introduction to Special Section
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For the scientifically well-informed, there’s a seriously bleak quality in the air around global warming and other environmental threats. To avert the multiple foreseen catastrophes will require heroic measures. But which measures have a chance of working?
2009
Conversation on Vegetarianism
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An exchange between Tikkun reader Ruth Eisenbud and Michael Lerner, in response to Daniel Brook’s article “The Planet-Saving Mitzvah: Why Jews Should Consider Vegetarianism” in the July/August 2009 issue of Tikkun. magazine.
2009
The Planet-Saving Mitzvah: Why Jews Should Consider Vegetarianism
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God’s original plan for how to be kosher.