Description: In this volume, prominent Buddhist scholar Donald Swearer posits that the future requires a radical shift toward living in recognition of the interdependence of all life forms and the consequent ethic of communality and a life style of moderation or "enoughness" that flows from that recognition, which he calls "an ecology of human flourishing."
Brief description: Donald K. Swearer is Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions and Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Swarthmore College.
Review Quotes: From the Foreword on, this book challenges--from multiple perspectives--the prevailing 'modern' paradigm of ecological and social individualism. Individual affluence is not sustainable in a milieu of widening human deprivation and ecological collapse; nor will your well-meaning voluntary individual self-restraint stanch poverty, pollution, and climate change. Only with a visceral collective recognition that we are all embedded absolutely and inextricably in complex, interdependent eco-social networks--accompanied by determined collective action--will there emerge genuine ecologies of human flourishing.--J. Baird Callicott, University Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas, and author of Beyond the Land Ethic: More Essays in Environmental Philosophy