“Something as important as an ethic is never [invented], conservationist Aldo Leopold wrote. “It evolves in the mind of a thinking community.” At the end of September, we convened twenty-four people in the ancient forests of the Oregon Cascades for the Blue River...
All week, I’ve been reporting in from the book tour for Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, writing about the questions I get and what I wish I would have said in response. I’m going to do that again today, but first I want to tell a story. In early...
It’s happened again. I’m on book tour with Moral Ground, a call for moral action to avert the worst effects of a warming and degraded planet. The audience is convinced; climate change is real, it is dangerous, it is upon us. They are empowered; nothing is stopping...
Forget fear of public speaking. Forget fear of flying. My biggest fear on this book tour for MORAL GROUND: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril is of that moment toward the end of the evening when a student – it’s always a student – stands up in the back of the...
From City Hall in San Jose, on book tour for Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril -- “. . . Then you will remember why you try so hard to protect this beloved world, and why you must succeed.” I finished my talk, paused, and asked for questions. The...