Description
Book SynopsisThis open access book helps readers combine history, politics, and ethics to address the most pressing problem facing the world today: environmental survival. In A Climate of Justice, Marvin Brown connects the environmental crisis to basic questions of economic, social, and racial justice. Brown shows how our current social climate maintains systemic injustices, and he uncovers resources for change through a civic ethics of repair and reciprocity. A must-read for researchers and educators in the area of environmental ethics and those teaching courses in the fields of public policy and environmental sustainability.
With the support of more than 30 libraries, the LYRASIS United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Fund has enabled this publication related to SDG13 (Climate Action) to be available fully open access.
Table of ContentsPreface
PART 1: THE INTERPRETIVE FRAMEWORK
Chapter 2 THE EARTH
Chapter 3 OUR HUMANITY
Chapter 4 THE SOCIAL
Chapter 5 THE CIVIC
PART 2: TELLING “TELLING” STORIES
Chapter 6 WHITE COMPROMISES AND AMERICAN PROSPERITY
Chapter 7 EINHOLD NIEBUHR DURING THE TIME OF THE WHITE COMPROMISE
Chapter 8 THE SHARECROPPER’S STORY AND AN ETHICS FOR ENVIRONMENTALISM
PART 3: EMPOWERING THE CIVIC
Chapter 9 CIVILIAN EMPOWERMENT: A THEOLOGICAL INQUIRY
Chapter 10 THE CITIZEN’S ROLE IN CREATING A CLIMATE OF JUSTICE
Chapter 11 AN INVITATION TO CIVIC DIALOGUE
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