What Can I Do to Help Heal the Environmental Crisis? [Paperback]

The culmination of over three decades of writing by environmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington, this book examines the global environmental crisis and its solutions.

Many of us know that something is wrong with our world, that it is wounded. At the same time, we often dont know why things have gone wrong  or what can be done. Framing the discussion around three central predicaments  the ecological, the social, and the economic  Washington provides background as to why each of these are in crisis and presents steps that individuals can personally take to heal the world. Urging the reader to accept the reality of our problems, he explores practical solutions for change such as the transition to renewable energy, rejection of climate denial and the championing of appropriate technology, as well as a readjustment in ethical approaches. The book also contains 19 solution boxes by distinguished environmental scholars.

With a focus on positive, personal solutions, this book is an essential read for students and scholars of environmental science and environmental philosophy, and for all those keen to heal the world and contribute towards a sustainable future.

List of figures and boxes

Biographies of box authors

Foreword 'Scorched Earth' by William Rees

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Our predicament: why we need to heal the world

2. A healing worldview and ethics

3. Reality, limits, denial and growthism

4. The tragedy of denial of overpopulation denial 

5. Transform society's assumptions

6. Appropriate technology tempered by humility

7. Reinvent and rejuvinate yoursel¹