Drive for Progress
Author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker explains that when we link progress to industrialization without any sense of limits or nature as a guide, the result is the current global crisis.
She is the author of numerous books, including Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press, 2003), and Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism (SUNY, 1989). She co-edited a series of books examining religion and ecology as well as a Daedalus volume titled Religion and Ecology: Can the Climate Change? (2001). She edited several of Thomas Berry's books including Evening Thoughts (Sierra Club Books and University of California Press, 2006), The Sacred Universe (Columbia Univ. Press, 2009), Christian Future and the Fate of Earth (Orbis Book, 2009).
She is a member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), served on the International Earth Charter Drafting Committee from 1997-2000 and is a member of the Earth Charter International Council.
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