Lisa Sideris 
Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection 
Suffering and Responsibility

In the last few decades, religious and secular thinkers have tackled the world’s escalating environmental crisis by attempting to develop an ecological ethic that is both scientifically accurate and free of human-centered preconceptions. This groundbreaking study shows that many of these environmental ethicists continue to model their positions on romantic, pre-Darwinian concepts that disregard the predatory and cruelly competitive realities of the natural world. Examining the work of such influential thinkers as James Gustafson, Sallie Mc Fague, Rosemary Radford Ruether, John Cobb, Peter Singer, and Holmes Rolston, Sideris proposes a more realistic ethic that combines evolutionary theory with theological insight, advocates a minimally interventionist stance toward nature, and values the processes over the products of the natural world.

Table of Content

Introduction
This View of Life: The Significance of Evolutionary Theory
For Environmental Ethics
The Best of All Possible Worlds: Ecofeminist Views of Nature and Ethics
The Ecological Model and the Reanimation of Nature
Darwinian Equality for All: Secular Views of Animal Rights and Liberation
Philosophical and Theological Critiques of Ecological Theology: Broadening Environmental Ethics from Ecocentric and Theocentric Perspectives
A Comprehensive Naturalized Ethic
Conclusion

About the author

Lisa H. Sideris is an assistant professor at the Mc Gill School of Environment and the Faculty of Religious Studies, Mc Gill University, Montreal.