Cover -- Contents -- Front Matter -- The Ethics of Global Warming -- Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd -- Dedication -- Preface -- Quotes -- Introduction -- A Moral Climate -- Empire and Ecology -- A Moral Climate? -- Judgment and Hope -- 1 Notes -- Message from the Planet -- The Scientific Assessment of Climate Change -- A Brief History of Global Warming -- Uncertainty and the Climate System -- Climatological Threats to Life -- The Climate of Consumption -- Global Warming and Neoliberalism -- Remote Control and Unaccountable Power -- The Character of Witness -- 1 Notes -- When Prophecy Fails -- Global Warming in Tanzania -- Inequity in Emissions and Effects -- Preventing Dangerous Climate Change -- Negotiating International Emissions Reductions -- The Immorality of Global Warming -- Extinction and Climate Change -- The Global Household and the Illiberal Economy -- Cosmos as Mechanism -- The Relational Science of Gaia -- The Climate Narratives of Noah and Joseph -- Energy and Empire -- Describing the Carbon Cycle -- The Promethean Age of Steam -- The Geopolitics of Oil -- Geohistory and the Cedars of Lebanon -- Power Politics -- The Social Shaping of Fossil Fuel -- The Micropolitics of Energy Conservation -- 1 Notes -- Climate Economics -- The Gift Economy and Relational Abundance -- Frontier Capitalism Versus Ecological Economics -- Negotiating Global Warming Mitigation -- Commodifying the Climate -- Personal Carbon Trading -- Moral Myopia and Cost Benefit Analysis -- Discounting the Future -- The Ecological Failings of Cost Benefit Analysis -- Repoliticising the Economy -- The Perversion of Making -- Notes -- Ethical Emissions -- Local Signs and Global Descriptions of Climate Change -- Ecological Justice and the Limits of Liberalism -- The Fall of the Common Good and the Rise of Neoliberalism -- Liberal Justice Beyond the Nation-State.

Global Justice and the Law of Love -- Economic Development and the Myth of Progress -- The Optics of Power and the Limits of Liberalism -- The Structures of Sin -- Contemplation and Action -- 1 Notes -- Dwelling in the Light -- Artificial and Uncreated Light -- Energy and Conservation -- Energy and Sanctuary -- Re-enchanting Human Dwelling -- Building As If There Were No Tomorrow -- The Quest for Sustainable Communities -- The Building As Microcosm -- Good Work and Moral Character -- Domestic Comfort and Public Neglect -- 1 Notes -- Mobility and Pilgrimage -- The Climate Change Machine -- The Inevitable Accidents of Speed -- The Disorientating Desire for Speed -- Pilgrimage and the Enchantment of Journeying -- The Journey as Quest -- Walking and Ecological Attentiveness -- Recovering Contingency -- The Love of Slow -- Notes -- Faithful Feasting -- The Origins of Agriculture -- Wilderness and Dependence -- Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Crops and Animal Husbandry -- Industrial Oils and Tropical Soils -- Fossil-fuelled Farming -- The Moral Economy of Food -- The Eucharist and Christian Eating -- Christian Worship and Spiritual Eating -- Remembering in Time -- Contesting the Evidence -- Technological Fixes -- Refusing Control by Redeeming the Time -- Hopeful Witness to Climate Justice -- 1 Notes -- Also Available.