Empowering Climate-Change Strategies with Bernard Lonergan's Method [Paperback]

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses. Using Bernard Lonergans functional specialization method, developed to facilitate collaboration among specialists, Raymaker and Durrani go beyond data analysis to look for inspiration to motivate and coordinate needed action by persons, groups, and nations.This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses. Using Bernard Lonergans functional specialization method, developed to facilitate collaboration among specialists, Raymaker and Durrani not only analyze data and rebut the claims of climate change deniers, but also look for inspiration to motivate and coordinate needed action by persons, groups, and nations. The book is wide-ranging in its historical examination of leaders who have shown us ways to work together constructively in finding solutions to problems. Lonergans method helps us study the past with a view to change the future. To do so, we must first reform ourselves.IntroductionPart I: Putting Climate Change Issues and Lonergans Method in PerspectiveBernard Lonergans Approach to Collaborative Networking: Universal Values in the Face of Our Environmental and Other Crises; Toward Possible SolutionsHistorical Background to Insights Cognitional Theory: Its Originality and ImportanceMethod in Theologys Eight Functional Specialties (FS) and Its Two PhasesHow MiTs Diphase Eight FS Can Open Up New Horizons in Climate StudiesRationale behind Method in Theologys Eight FS Being Treated within the Two PhasesPart II: Analyzing Our Present Climate Crises with a View to Sketch a RemedyFirst Functional Specialty: Research and Gathering Relevant Data on Climate ChangeSecond Functional Specialty: Analyzing and Interpreting the Data on Climate ChangesThird Functional Specialty: Historical Perspectives on Climate Changes: Some ImplicationsFourth Functional Specialty: Dealing with the Implications of Climate Changes: The lƒ*