Morality and the Environmental Crisis

The wisdom of a lifetime of reflection on all the basic issues that intersect morality and the environment. This is the best – and most constructive – work I have read-Larry Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary

In this wise and beautiful book, Gottlieb explains how the environmental crisis constitutes a moral crisis. We have lost our way – in terms of knowing how to treat the world, be engaged citizens, and pursue meaningful lives. Gottlieb helps us navigate our confusion by inviting us to expand our understanding, compassion, and humanity. This is a generous, gem of a book. Paul Wapner, American University, Washington, DC

Roger S. Gottlieb is one of the most significant public intellectuals of our time … [and brings] his philosophical, psychological, and spiritual wisdom to confront the way we think about the earth and each other. Gottlieb has produced a book that everyone who cares about the future of the life on Earth should be reading! Michael Lerner, Editor of Tikkun

Inspiring, well researched and written … Gottlieb elaborates well-reasoned and impassioned appeals to stimulate moral choices that would concurrently overcome despair and generate hope. The envisioned outcome is achieving the greater common good on Earth. Very highly recommended-John Hart, Boston University

In this insightful volume, Roger S. Gottlieb surveys the ecological crisis and our rabid exploitation of creation, not as potential threat but as immediate reality. With prophetic vision, he links that reality and its necessary remedy with a profound moral imperative, and a spirituality not as glib sentimentality but as hopeful necessity-Bill J. Leonard, Wake Forest University, North Carolina ‘

The environmental crisis is so wicked a problem that it has become hard, even impossible, to be morally good. Escalating our demands and vast powers, Homo sapiens, the wise species, has put the wonderland planet in deep jeopardy. Gottlieb probes these hopelessly entangled benefits and costs with frightening insight – daring radical revision of civilization-Holmes Rolston, III, University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Colorado State University