Great Tide Rising
Towards Clarity and Moral Courage in a time of Planetary Change
Published on 1. February 2016
272 pages
978-1-61902-756-5 (ISBN)
Description
Even as seas rise against the shores, another great tide is beginning to rise - a tide of outrage against the pillage of the planet, a tide of commitment to justice and human rights, a swelling affirmation of moral responsibility to the future and to Earth's fullness of life.
Philosopher and nature essayist Kathleen Dean Moore takes on the essential questions: Why is it wrong to wreck the world? What is our obligation to the future? What is the transformative power of moral resolve? How can clear thinking stand against the lies and illogic that batter the chances for positive change? What are useful answers to the recurring questions of a storm-threatened time - What can anyone do? Is there any hope? And always this: What stories and ideas will lift people who deeply care, inspiring them to move forward with clarity and moral courage?
Philosopher and nature essayist Kathleen Dean Moore takes on the essential questions: Why is it wrong to wreck the world? What is our obligation to the future? What is the transformative power of moral resolve? How can clear thinking stand against the lies and illogic that batter the chances for positive change? What are useful answers to the recurring questions of a storm-threatened time - What can anyone do? Is there any hope? And always this: What stories and ideas will lift people who deeply care, inspiring them to move forward with clarity and moral courage?
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Kathleen Dean Moore is the author or co-editor of many books about our moral and emotional bonds to the wild, reeling world, including Earth's Wild Music, Wild Comfort, Moral Ground, and Great Tide Rising. She is the recipient of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Association Award and the Oregon Book Award, along with the WILLA Literary Award for her novel Piano Tide. A philosopher and activist, Moore writes from Corvallis, Oregon and Chichagof Island, Alaska.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: Learning to Navigate Amid Loss
- Preface: At Low Tide, Watching the World Go Away
- Part I: It's Wrong to Wreck the World
- The Power of Moral Affirmation
- Why it's Wrong to Wreck the World
- Because the World is Wonderful
- Because We Love the Children
- Because We Honor Human Rights and Justice
- Part II: A Call to Care
- A Love Story
- On Joyous Attention
- An Old Worldview, A New Worldview
- An Ethic of the Earth
- An Ethic of the Cosmos
- Ethics and Extinction
- The Rights of Nature
- Part III: A Call to Witness
- Breaking the Silence
- Invincible Ignorance
- False Promises and Dead Ends
- The Work of Democracy
- The Work of Science
- The Work of Nature Writers
- The Work of Wilderness
- Part IV: A Call to Act
- Really Hard Questions
- We have Met the Enemy and Is He Us?
- What Can One Person Do?
- After Hope, the Roar of the Lion, the Great Rising Wave
- Afterword
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
