ABSTRACT

The problems that organize this section represent the basic difficulty for global ethics: how can humans living in many different cultural and religious worlds develop common responsibility for one shared planet? We inhabit one planet but live in many worlds. This volume dwells on the religious entanglements of environmental problems and ecological relations. Most of the contributors to this book think that, in some way, understanding religious dimensions of ecological relations will help humans more adequately confront shared challenges. Yet religion seems as likely to impede as improve cooperation on planet-wide challenges that face humanity as a species; so why focus on it here?