Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Must We Sacrifice? -- I Asking the Right Questions -- 2 A Democratic Politics of Sacrifice? -- 3 Sacrifi ce in an Age of Comfort -- 4 Freedom, Values, and Sacrifice -- II Seeing Sacrifice in Everyday Life -- 5 Ordinary and Extraordinary Sacrifices -- 6 The Sacred and the Profane in the Ecological Politics of Sacrifice -- 7 Consumer Sovereignty, Heroic Sacrifice -- 8 Parental Sacrifice as Atonement for Future Climate Change -- III Obstacles and Opportunities -- 9 Self-Interest, Sacrifice, and Climate Change -- 10 Civic Virtue and Sacrifice in a Suburban Nation -- 11 Bikes, Sticks, Carrots -- 12 Intelligent Design? -- 13 Struggling with Sacrifice -- 14 Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index.