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For readers of The Sixth Extinction, a manifesto for meaningfully confronting our role in climate change and committing to sustainable, eco-friendly living during an era irrevocably marked by human activity. Despite our brief tenure on planet Earth, Homo sapiens have caused an epoch of climate change and declining ecological diversity: the Anthropocene. This age has been singularly defined by humans' unique and unprecedented ability to destroy our only habitat. In the face of global warming and animal extinction, it is vitally important we collectively turn toward the cultivation of eco-virtues—a new set of values by which to live—if there is to be any hope for us and other species to continue to exist. Within this collection are Nunavut hunters, religious theologists, acclaimed academics and poets—including writing by philosopher and poet Jan Zwicky recently deemed a seminal text on climate change by The Guardian . The contributors bring a wide breadth of perspectives from diverse realms of philosophy, culture, belief, and writing style. A Book of Ecological Virtues: Living Well in the Anthropocene speaks to humanity's mortality and transience within the study of ecology, including the environmental ramifications of longer life, improved medicine and treatments, and even funeral rites. It is a philosophical and timely collection of essays on how we can embody a more sustainable future through daily action and habit change. "A significant contribution to eco-philosophy, and to our collective discourse on the human-nature relationship."— Laura Sewall , author of Sight and Sensibility: The Ecopsychology of Perception
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Call for an Ecological Virtue Ethics
Heesoon Bai, David Chang, & Charles Scott
PART I: THE CALL FROM AND TO EARTH
1. Serving Nature: Completing the Ecosystem Services Circle
Nancy J. Turner & Darcy Mathews
2. Ecological Presence as a Virtue
Peter H. Kahn, J.
PART II: MORALITY AND MORTALITY
3. A Ship from Delos
Jan Zwicky
4. Thanatopsis: Death Literacy for the Living
David Greenwood & Margaret McKee
PART III:INSIGHTS FROM THE CONTEMPLATIVE WISDOM TRADITIONS
5. What Are "Daoist" Virtues? Seeking an Ethical Perspective on Human Conduct and Ecology
Paul Crowe
6. The Ecological Virtues of Buddhism
David R. Loy
7. Never Weary of Gazing: Contemplative Practice and the Cultivation of Ecological Virtue
Douglas E. Christie
PART IV: PHILOSOPHIES OF VIRTUE ETHICS
8. The Ethic of Sustainable Well-Being and Well-Becoming:A Systems Approach to Virtue Ethics
Thomas Falkenberg
9. Why Virtue Is Good for You: The Politics of Ecological Eudaimonism
Mike Hannis
PART V: EMBODIED CREATURE CONNECTIONSTO OTHERS AND PLACE
10. "Owning Up to Being an Animal": On the Ecological Virtues of Composure
David W. Jardine
11. Worthy of This Mountain: Living a Life of Friction Against the Machine
David Chang
12. Stories of Love and Loss: Recommitting to Each Other and the Land
Tommy Akulukjuk, Nigora Erkaeva, DerekRasmussen, & Rebecca A. Martusewicz
13. Evoking Ethos: A Poetic Love Note to Place
Carl Leggo & Margaret McKeon
Author Biographies
Index
