Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril

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Moral Ground brings together the testimony of over 80 visionaries - theologians and religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturists, activists, and writers - to present a diverse and compelling call to honor our individual and collective moral responsibilities to our planet. In the face of environmental degradation and global climate change, scientific knowledge alone does not tell us what we ought to do. The missing premise of the argument and much-needed centerpiece in the debate to date has been the need for ethical values, moral guidance, and principled reasons for doing the right thing for our planet, its animals, its plants, and its people. This book encourages a newly discovered, or rediscovered, commitment to consensus about our ethical obligation to the future and why it's wrong to wreck the world.

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Named a Top 10 Environmental Read by Huffington Post Will light a righteous fire under those who are receptive to its message; the best we can do is hope that it spreads, and spreads, and spreads. Utne Moral Ground seeks to inspire action through a recognition of our species commitment to ethical behavior and a reminder that ideals such as love and justice must dictate all of our actions. Orion Because the message needs to be heard now more than ever, as we are on the brink of continuing to thoughtlessly, recklessly, destroy ourselves and the Earth, the combination of philosophy and science is especially effective. Chicago Examiner Taking ethical action to address global climate change worldwide is a bequest that will give life to people now and in the future. Eugene Register Guard An ambitious project that aims to make a rock-solid moral case for environmental action. Grist A call to cultivate and implement a sense of collective moral responsibility to the future of our planet. Isle Journal Solving climate change issues will come only from our openness to listen to each other, learn from each other, and seek mutual understanding in good faith. Portland Tribune

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Michael P. Nelson is the Ruth H. Spaniol Chair of Natural Resources and a professor of environmental ethics and philosophy at Oregon State University, where he also serves as the lead principle investigator for the HJ Andrews Long-Term Ecological Research program in the Oregon Cascades. He is the coeditor, with J. Baird Callicott, of The Great New Wilderness Debate and The Wilderness Debate Rages On. He is also the cofounder and codirector of the Conservation Ethics Group, an award-winning environmental consultancy group fusing ethics with social and ecological science. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon.