Book contents
- There Is No Planet B
- Reviews
- There Is No Planet B
- Copyright page
- Additional material
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- What’s New in this Updated Edition?
- Introduction to the First Edition
- 1 Food
- 2 More on Climate and Environment
- 3 Energy
- 4 Travel and Transport
- 5 Growth, Money and Metrics
- 6 People and Work
- 7 Business and Technology
- 8 Values, Truth and Trust
- 9 Thinking Skills for Today’s World
- 10 Protest
- 11 Big-Picture Summary
- 12 What Can I Do?
- Appendix: Climate Emergency Basics
- Alphabetical Quick Tour
- Notes on Units
- EndNotes
- Index
8 - Values, Truth and Trust
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 January 2021
- There Is No Planet B
- Reviews
- There Is No Planet B
- Copyright page
- Additional material
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- What’s New in this Updated Edition?
- Introduction to the First Edition
- 1 Food
- 2 More on Climate and Environment
- 3 Energy
- 4 Travel and Transport
- 5 Growth, Money and Metrics
- 6 People and Work
- 7 Business and Technology
- 8 Values, Truth and Trust
- 9 Thinking Skills for Today’s World
- 10 Protest
- 11 Big-Picture Summary
- 12 What Can I Do?
- Appendix: Climate Emergency Basics
- Alphabetical Quick Tour
- Notes on Units
- EndNotes
- Index
Summary
All the pathways of this book seem to be converging inescapably on the question of values. It turns out to be the crunch point. I haven’t manipulated it that way. In fact, if I could have avoided a values discussion, the book would have been simpler to write. I am conscious of being no more of an ethics professor than I am an economist. But the evidence is pointing towards some values that will help us live well in the Anthropocene, and others that won’t. So, I write this section from a pragmatic perspective. I’m simply asking which values will and which values won’t allow people and planet to thrive in the twenty-first century, and how we can end up with the right ones. Luckily, it turns out that our values are something we can actually shape if we want to.1
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- There Is No Planet BA Handbook for the Make or Break Years – Updated Edition, pp. 191 - 206Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021