Joe Gray & Eileen Crist 
Cohabiting Earth [EPUB ebook] 
Seeking a Bright Future for All Life

The eco-catastrophes that we are witnessing today starkly demonstrate how the interests of the Earth’s currently dominant species are in lockstep with those of nature’s wider whole. Simply stated, humans and the more-than-human world have a shared fate. Just as humanity’s unrestrained overreach in the ecosphere is driving a mass extinction event and causing the devastation of lifeforms and places, so it is also jeopardizing the prospect of a human future worth living. There is no ‘humans versus nature’ tradeoff: the wellbeing of both is inseparably entwined. Solutions to the shared predicament of all Earth’s beings will thus necessarily be those that strive for harmony between human presence and the rest of nature. This applies to the philosophy we adopt for agriculture, the ways in which human economies operate, our patterns of consumption, and numerous other intertwined threads of our existence. This anthology argues that harmony between humanity and our home planet must be built on the pillars of restraint, respect, and reverence.

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Acknowledgments



Foreword


Stephanie Mills



Introduction: Undoing Earth’s Humanization


Eileen Crist and Joe Gray




Section One: Restraint



1. Restoring Balance through Procreative Responsibility


Nandita Bajaj and Kirsten Stade



2. Restraint in Consumption


Luke Philip Plotica



3. Technologies Fit for an Ecological Future


John Michael Greer



4. Social Ecological Transformation of Economies: Where the Environmental Movement Went Wrong and What Is Needed


Clive L. Spash



5. Artful Descent: An Aesthetics of Existence


Samuel Alexander




Section Two: Respect



6. Is It the Call of the Wild . . . or of Deep Law? What Is the Moral Heart of Conservation?


Freya Mathews



7. Protecting, Restoring, and Rewilding Ecosystems


Reed F. Noss



8. Coexisting with Africa’s Carnivores


Tarik Bodasing



9. For the Bounteous Beauty of the Living Seas


Eileen Crist



10. The Future of Food Production


Ryan D. Andrews



11. Human Identity, Oppression, and the Rigors of Hope


Chelsea Batavia



12. Respecting Nonhuman Life: The Guide for a Better Pathway in Outdoor Recreation


Joe Gray and Ian Whyte




Section Three: Reverence



13. Enchantment, Modernity, and Reverence for Nature


Patrick Curry



14. There Are Gods Here Too: For an Inhumanist Animal Aesthetics


Matthew Calarco



15. Rediscovering Tree Sentience and Our Reverence for Life


Simon Leadbeater and Helen Kopnina



16. Seeking Ecosocial Cultural Change: Boldly Going beyond Nature Deficit Disorder


Sean Blenkinsop



17. Gratitude Is a Way of Life


Kathleen Dean Moore



List of Contributors

Index

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Joe Gray is an Associate Editor of
The Ecological Citizen.
Eileen Crist is Associate Professor Emerita of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.