The tone of what she is suggesting is indicated far better when she talks about the values we need to espouse. She finishes with a clear statement about the values she believes we need if we are going to reforge a world that can grapple with the challenge with which climate change confronts us.Fundamentally, the task is to articulate not just an alternative set of policy proposals but an alternative worldview to rival the one at the heart of the ecological crisisembedded in interdependence rather than hyper-individualism, reciprocity rather than dominance, and cooperation rather than hierarchy. This is another lesson from the transformative movements of the past (for example the abolition of slavery and of apartheid): all of them understood that the process of shifting cultural values . . . was central to their work. And so they dreamed in public, showed humanity a better version of itself, modeled different values in their own behavior, and in the process liberated the political imagination and rapidly altered the sense of what was possible. They were also unafraid of the language of moralityto give the pragmatic, cost benefit arguments a rest and to speak of right and wrong, of love and indignation. (p. 462) This book, apparently totally untheological, has many resonances with the work of Walter Wink for example: 'When a particular Power becomes idolatrous, placing itself above God's purposes for the good of the whole, then that Power becomes demonic. The church's task is to unmask this idolatry and to recall the Powers to their created purposes in the world' (Walter Wink,
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