At home in the cosmos /
David Toolan.
- New York : Northam : Orbis ; Roundhouse, 2001.
- 256 p. ; 24 cm.
The Biblical Vision of Creation -- Does Yahweh Care about Whales? -- Is Christianity to Blame for the Problem? -- New Developments -- The Priestly "Steward" vs. the Yahwist's "Service" of Nature -- Nature Symbolic of Promise -- Not Anthropocentrism but Theocentrism -- Promise and the Land -- Transcendence and Negation -- Nature as Sacrament -- Sacrament as Human Deed -- The Development of Scientific Materialism -- Imperial Ecology and the Death of Nature -- Literacy and Detachment from the Earth -- Imperial Ecology -- Enter Isaac Newton: The Death of Nature -- Classical Physics and Economic Materialism -- The Clockmaker God -- The Competitive Ethos Triumphant -- How the Industrial World Works -- Arcadian Ecology -- The Harsh Lesson of the Galapagos -- Are Ecologists the Good Guys? -- State of the Earth -- Is There an Environmental Crisis? -- The Case against Environmental Hype -- Reading Earth's Vital Signs: Soil and Food Production, Water, Forests, Biodiversity -- Pushing the Limits -- Built-in Blindness to Limits -- Energy Consumption -- Pollution and Other Garbage -- Global Warming -- Preventive Action? -- The Dynamics of Unsustainability -- Scientific Uncertainty -- Fitting into the Great Economy -- Driving Forces behind Environmental Damage -- Malthusian, Structuralist, and Economistic Arguments -- The Debate Continues -- The New Colonialism -- Sustainable Development vs. Sustainable Communities -- Civilizing the Global Marketplace -- The New Cosmology -- Evolution and Theological Repair -- Theology in a Static Cosmos.