Restoring Earth, Community, and Soul: Creating the Social, Economic, and Religious Transformations Required by Global Warming

Restoring Earth, Community, and Soul is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of global warming. This book summarizes climate change in all its dimensions: causes, consequences, and solutions. It demonstrates that in all of these dimensions, two very different ways of thinking frame our understanding across all disciplines, including, most notably, science, economics, politics, and religion. It illustrates how the second way of thinking, which incorporates systems theory and progressive values, can bring the possibility of real solutions to global warming when applied to these four disciplines. It makes the overwhelming complexity of the issues involved understandable through commentary and comparison charts of these two ways of thinking in each field. Whereas most research focuses on one narrow topic, making knowledge highly fragmented and compartmentalized, this book provides a coherent description of the whole, so that we can know where we are and where we need to go.