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9. For those other practitioners who have forgotten the list, they are pride,
greed, lust, anger, envy, sloth, and gluttony.
Chapter 6
1. James Lovelock (1998 and 2006) is among the very few to conjecture about
how to convey the rudiments of science and civilization in a durable and
usable form to those living on the other side of a collapsed civilization.
Chapter 7
1. See Norton (2004).
2. Read political philosopher Brian Berry’s compelling case for justice in a
greenhouse world, titled “Justice or Bust” (2005, pp. 260–273).
3. This phrase is adapted from Wells (1946). Wells wrote: “This world is at the
end of its tether. The end of everything we call life is close at hand and cannot
be evaded” (p. 1).
Chapter 8
1. The U.S. Supreme Court is apparently losing a large share of its international
audience who fi nd its decisions, perhaps, too ideological, aloof, formulaic,
and remote from lived reality. See Liptak (2008).
2. It is worth studying the similarities between slavery and our use of fossil
fuels as a matter of intergenerational law. See for example, David Orr, “2020:
A Proposal,” in Orr (2002), pp. 143–151, and Mouhot (2008).
3. Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich once proposed the creation of a “foresight
institute” charged with evaluation of long-term trends and their consequences:
Ornstein and Ehrlich (1989).
4. With the leadership of Tony Cortese and his staff at Second Nature, hundreds
of colleges and universities, including Oberlin, have responded to the
challenge by signing commitments to move toward carbon neutrality and
are taking steps to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Reaching the goal of carbon
neutrality will be easier where sunlight and hydropower are abundant and
more diffi cult in regions like our own that are highly dependent on coal.
In any event, the case for moving rapidly toward levels of energy effi ciency
that lower carbon emissions includes lower costs as the price of fossil energy
rises, resilience in the face of price shocks and supply interruptions, and the
moral obligation not to damage the world in which our graduates and our
children will live.
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