Integrating Ecology and Justice in a Changing Climate

by Sam Mickey

Drawing on Jesuit values as well as perspectives from disciplines across the humanities and sciences, this volume is oriented toward care for the people, communities, and ecosystems that make up our common home. Caring for our planetary home means responding to the multifaceted challenges of the current historical moment. As unprecedented changes are happening around the planet, the climate emergency poses an existential threat to humankind and to all life on Earth. This is a problem of survival and sustainability, but it is also more than that. It raises questions about justice. Ecological destruction cannot be adequately understood without addressing the systemic inequalities of social systems, and likewise, those inequalities cannot be understood apart from their ecological context. Engaging with a wide range of topics, from Pope Francis to Zen Buddhism, from the Global North to the Global South, from personal practice to systemic change, Integrating Ecology and Justice in a Changing Climate provides tools for thinking through these complex issues and facilitating the emergence of healthy, convivial, contemplative, and just ways of being in the world.Sam Mickey, PhD, is an Adjunct Professor in the Theology and Religious Studies department at the University of San Francisco, a research associate for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, and an author and editor of several books on the intersection of ecological, religious, and philosophical perspectives.

83 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 27, 2020

Reviews

[Jan Petrozzi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This quick read contains only 4 chapters. The first chapter includes info on a few of the earlier pioneers of ecological justice such as Ivan Illich and Gandhi and their impacts. Following is a chapter on Integral Ecology, and then the unfortunate impacts of the actions and perceptions of wealthy countries on “developing countries” which also posits whether “developing countries” are truly what we deem them to be or just cultures that are not understood and have fallen prey to the belief that the ways of developed countries are the only way. The book closes with a chapter which discusses Laudato Si and Zen Buddhism.