Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595340858 ISBN 13: 9781595340856

Publisher: Trinity University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Kathleen Dean Moore is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University. She is the author or editor of many books including Wild Comfort, The Pine Island Paradox, Rachel Carson, Holdfast, Riverwalking, and countless journal and magazine articles. She serves on the board of directors for Orion Society and Island Institute. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon.

Michael P. Nelson is Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics at Lyman Briigs College at Michigan State University. He is author or editor of several books including The Wilderness Debate Rages On and The Great New Wilderness Debate. He lives in Bell Oak, Michigan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Trinity University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1595340858
• ISBN 13: 9781595340856
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 524
• Editor: Moore Kathleen Dean, Nelson Michael P.