To what extent is a lack of hope to blame for our inaction on the climate?
Environment
Dharma and Ahimsa: A Hindu Take on Environmental Stewardship
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The dharmic concept of ahimsa (“not to injure”) demands that we take personal and political action to protect the environment.
2015
Looking to the Qur’an in an Age of Climate Disaster
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The Qur’an instructs us to live lightly on this earth. From Zanzibar to Indonesia, Islamic ethics are guiding new conservation efforts.
30.2 Spring
A Bodhisattva’s Approach to Climate Activism
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Bodhisattvas commit daily to an impossible task: the liberation of all living beings. What can climate activists learn from their active nonattachment?
Eco-Spirituality
Limiting Corporate Power and Cultivating Interdependence: A Strategic Plan for the Environment
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The environmental movement is too fragmented. It’s time to integrate our struggles and recognize the spiritual dimension of our political work.
Climate Change
Hope Requires Fighting the Hope Industry
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Corporations are feeding our denial. Climate change cannot be averted without also overhauling the global economy.
Environmental Activism
Facing the Death of Nature: Environmental Memorials to Counter Despair
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We must find ways to mourn lost species and care for dying ecosystems—doing so will enable us to face climate change with humility and hope.
Climate Change
It’s Time to Get Serious About Saving the Planet from Destruction
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We can replace the ethos of endless growth and conspicuous consumption with an approach to nature based on awe and wonder at the preciousness of the earth, love of all beings, and celebration of life.
2015
The Place of Hope in an Age of Climate Disaster
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As the earth heats up, sea levels rise, and thousands of species face extinction, it’s easy to boomerang between denial and despair.
2015
Fulfilling Our Debt to Humanity: A Hindu Perspective on Jubilee
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Once we expand the definition of debt beyond material considerations, the idea of Jubilee becomes more than just debt cancellation—it becomes a broader push to institutionalize the fulfillment of our debts to humanity and Mother Earth.
2014
Two Books about Grassroots Alternatives for Building a New World
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by Antonio González and George S. Johnson
Environment
Earth-Honoring Faith
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As we enter an age of ecological catastrophe, we need new theologies. Political campaigns are not enough—we need to rethink our place in the world.
2014
Doing Justice in an Unjust World
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Thad Williamson reviews Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation by Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda.
Culture
Three Books on Facing Climate Change
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by Joel Magnuson, Lester R. Brown, and James Gustave Speth
2014
You Can Help Stop America’s March to the Right
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I call this Love’s Rebellion—a refusal to accept the ethos of materialism and selfishness as the ultimate truth of our lives, an insistence on seeing the goodness in others, and a determination to replace “power over” with caring for each other and the earth! It’s time now to give Love’s Rebellion a political platform. And to make that happen, we need your help to push these issues into the public sphere. The most effective way to help introduce a spiritual progressive voice is for you to build a caucus in your union, professional organization, church, synagogue, mosque, political party, or run for some sort of office.