Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction Toward a Global Consensus for Ethical Action -- 1 Yes, For the Survival of Humankind. -- The Limits of Growth -- The Danger of Human Exceptionalism -- A Question of Our Own Survival -- The Fate of Creation Is the Fate of Humanity -- The Inuit Right to Culture Based on Ice and Snow -- The Future I Want for My Daughters -- Obligation to Posterity? -- Ethical Action -- 2 Yes, For the Sake of the Children. -- Keepers of Life -- We Bear You in Mind -- For the Children -- Steering the Earth Toward Our Children's Future -- A Letter to My Boys -- You Choose -- Ethical Action -- 3 Yes, For the Sake of the Earth Itself. -- Sky -- A Hinge Point of History -- The Planet Is Shouting but Nobody Listens -- The Bells of Mindfulness -- Restoration and Redemption -- A Copernican Revolution in Ethics -- Ethical Action -- 4 Yes, For the Sake of All Forms of Life on the Planet. -- Wild Things for Their Own Sakes -- Spray Glue Goes. Maggots Stay. -- Ornithophilia -- Heirloom Chile Peppers and Climate Change -- Imagining Darwin's Ethics -- Evening Falls on the Maladaptive Ape -- Ethical Action -- 5 Yes, to Honor Our Duties of Gratitude and Reciprocity. -- To Commit a Crime Against the Natural World Is a Sin -- Sacred Ancestors, Sacred Homes -- The Giveaway -- From the Mountain, a Covenant -- So the Future Can Come Forth from the Ground -- A Conference in Time -- Ethical Action -- 6 Yes, for the Full Expression of Human Virtue. -- A Newt Note -- Worship the Earth -- Something Braver Than Trying to Save the World -- Peace and Sustainability Depend on the Spiritual and the Feminine -- A Life Worth Living -- Who We Really Are -- Ethical Action -- 7 Yes, Because All Flourishing is Mutual -- An American Indian Cultural Universe -- No Separation Between Present and Future -- A Transformational Ecology -- Why Should I Inconvenience Myself?.

Extra! Extra! New Consciousness Needed -- Just a Few More Yards -- Why Sacrifice for Future Generations? -- Hope and the New Energy Economy -- Ethical Action -- 8 Yes, for the Stewardship of God's Creation. -- A Manifesto to North American Middle-Class Christians -- God's Passion in the Bible: The World -- Our Obligation to Tomorrow -- The Biblical Mandate for Creation Care -- Will Religions Guide Us on Our Dangerous Journey? -- Ethical Action -- 9 Yes, Because Compassion Requires It. -- Winter Wheat -- We Are Called to Help the Earth to Heal -- An Invisible Killer -- Climate Change Is a Moral Problem for You, Right Now -- From Engagement to Emancipation -- The Architecture of Language, Parts 9 and 10 -- Ethical Action -- 10 Yes, Because Justice Demands It. -- Ethics as if Tomorrow Mattered -- Sustainability as a Founding Principle of the United States -- Climate Change and Intergenerational Responsibility -- Still an American Dilemma -- There Is a Tide -- A Fair Deal -- The Moral Climate -- Ethical Action -- 11 Yes, Because the World is Beautiful. -- Our Edens: Ecological Homes -- Wolves, Ravens, and a New Purpose for Science -- Get Dirty, Get Dizzy -- The Feasting -- Ethical Action -- 12 Yes, Because We Love the World -- Changing Ethics for a Changing World -- Touching the Earth -- Love, Grief, and Climate Change -- For the Love and Beauty of Nature -- Earth Religion and Radical Religious Reformation -- A Promise Made in Love, Awe, and Fear -- The Call to Forgiveness at the End of the Day -- Ethical Action -- 13 Yes, to Honor and Celebrate the Earth and Earth Systems. -- The Great Work -- An Ethic of the Earth -- Spring's Hopes Eternal -- Dawn for All Time -- The Universe Story and Planetary Civilization -- Ethical Action -- 14 Yes, Because Our Moral Integrity Requires Us to Do What Is Right -- Moral Responsibility Is the Price of Progress.

Climate Change: What Is Required of Us? -- Being Cool in the Face of Global Warming -- Everything Must Go -- The No-Man's-Land of Ethics -- The Advocacy Responsibility of the Scientist -- How to Be Hopeful -- To a Future Without Hope -- The Most Amazing Challenge -- Ethical Action -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- List of Contributors.