The Planet You Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty's a Sure Thing
For the first time ever, love letters consciously written by elders of one geologic epoch to the young of another.

Our children's and grandchildren's generation will face a different world, one affected by climate instability, mass uncertainty, and breathtaking extinction. In fact, the next generation will face the reality that human activity is changing the planet from one geological epoch to another.

From this vantage point—two generations across two geological epochs facing a fundamentally changing planet—Larry Rasmussen writes to his grandchildren. As a grandfather invested in a green earth and climate justice as well as a scholar of faith-based earth ethics, Rasmussen bridges this gap between generations to write to the future about climate change, global citizenship, democracy, and legacy. In topics ranging from "A Viable Way of Life" and "Democracy" to "Where We've Come From" and "Who We Are Now," Rasmussen explores the large questions of justice, meaning, and faith, encouraging us to speak to and look to the future generation and their future world.

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The Planet You Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty's a Sure Thing
For the first time ever, love letters consciously written by elders of one geologic epoch to the young of another.

Our children's and grandchildren's generation will face a different world, one affected by climate instability, mass uncertainty, and breathtaking extinction. In fact, the next generation will face the reality that human activity is changing the planet from one geological epoch to another.

From this vantage point—two generations across two geological epochs facing a fundamentally changing planet—Larry Rasmussen writes to his grandchildren. As a grandfather invested in a green earth and climate justice as well as a scholar of faith-based earth ethics, Rasmussen bridges this gap between generations to write to the future about climate change, global citizenship, democracy, and legacy. In topics ranging from "A Viable Way of Life" and "Democracy" to "Where We've Come From" and "Who We Are Now," Rasmussen explores the large questions of justice, meaning, and faith, encouraging us to speak to and look to the future generation and their future world.

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The Planet You Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty's a Sure Thing

The Planet You Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty's a Sure Thing

The Planet You Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty's a Sure Thing

The Planet You Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty's a Sure Thing

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Overview

For the first time ever, love letters consciously written by elders of one geologic epoch to the young of another.

Our children's and grandchildren's generation will face a different world, one affected by climate instability, mass uncertainty, and breathtaking extinction. In fact, the next generation will face the reality that human activity is changing the planet from one geological epoch to another.

From this vantage point—two generations across two geological epochs facing a fundamentally changing planet—Larry Rasmussen writes to his grandchildren. As a grandfather invested in a green earth and climate justice as well as a scholar of faith-based earth ethics, Rasmussen bridges this gap between generations to write to the future about climate change, global citizenship, democracy, and legacy. In topics ranging from "A Viable Way of Life" and "Democracy" to "Where We've Come From" and "Who We Are Now," Rasmussen explores the large questions of justice, meaning, and faith, encouraging us to speak to and look to the future generation and their future world.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781506473536
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 11/29/2022
Pages: 213
Sales rank: 189,367
Product dimensions: 5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Larry L. Rasmussen, a renowned Christian environmental ethicist, is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, emeritus, at Union Theological Seminary. He is the author of Earth Community, Earth Ethics; winner of the Grawemeyer Award; and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Christian Ethics. He has mentored a generation of scholars in eco-theology and green religion, rooted in practices of environmental justice within community contexts. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.


Terry Tempest Williams has been called "a citizen writer," a crucial voice for ecological consciousness and social change. She is the author of Refuge, Red, and The Hour of Land, among othersand is the recipient of numerous awards.

Table of Contents

Foreword 1

Author's Note 7

Epoch Times 9

Tender Years 19

Something to Write Home About 27

You Finish the Story 35

Love in a Time of Plague 41

"Love with Legs" 49

The Kindness of Microbial Strangers 57

The Core Keeps Score 63

We/They R Us 73

All Too Human 79

Different All the Same 85

What's in a Name If the Name Is God? 95

Coming of Age 103

The Uncontained God 109

Democracy Endangered 117

Democracy Enhanced 127

Aftemme 139

Elsewhere 149

Responsible by Degrees 155

It's All in the Pronouns 163

Becoming Good Ancestors 173

Leaving a Legacy 185

Acknowledgments 193

For Further Reading 195

Notes 197

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