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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Buddhadharma and the Planetary Crisis | |
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| Overview of the Book | |
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| Mind, Heart, and Nature: The Fourteenth Dalai Lama | |
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| Universal Responsibility and the Climate Emergency | |
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| The Sheltering Tree of Interdependence: A Buddhist Monk's Reflections on Ecological Responsibility | |
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| Global Warming Science: A Buddhist Approach | |
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| Climate, Science, and Buddhism | |
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| Our Own Geological Epoch: The Anthropocene | |
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| "The celestial order disrupted loosens plague, famine, and war..." | |
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| Climate Breakdown at the Third Pole: Tibet | |
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| The Road from Denial to Agricultural Collapse | |
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| The Peak Oil Factor | |
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| Scientific Predictions of Ecological Karma | |
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| The Sixth Great Extinction | |
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| What Makes Us Do It? | |
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| A Safe-Climate Future | |
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| Asian Buddhist Perspectives | |
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| Preface: The Meaning of Aspirational Prayer | |
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| Pure Aspiration, Bodhisattva Activity, and a Safe-Climate Future | |
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| The Global Ecological Crisis: An Aspirational Prayer | |
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| The Mandala of the Four Energies in the Kaliyuga | |
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| A Prayer to Protect the Earth | |
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| A Prayer at a Time of Ecological Crisis | |
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| When Snow Mountains Wear Black Hats | |
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| An Aspirational Prayer to Avert Global Warming | |
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| A Prayer to Protect the World's Environment | |
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| Human Intelligence Without Wisdom Can Destroy Nature | |
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| The Bodhisattva Path at a Time of Crisis | |
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| Very Dangerous Territory | |
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| A New Meaning of Chu ("Beings") and No ("Environment") Has Emerged | |
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| Minimum Needs and Maximum Contentment | |
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| Western Buddhist Perspectives | |
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| The Voice of the Golden Goose | |
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| Woe Unto Us! | |
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| On Being with Our World | |
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| "Except as we have loved, All news arrives as from a distant land" | |
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| Now the Whole Planet Has Its Head on Fire | |
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| The Untellable Nonstory of Global Warming | |
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| The Future Doesn't Hurt... Yet | |
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| The World Is What You Make It: A Zen View of Global Responsibility | |
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| The Rising Temperature of Planet Earth | |
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| Solutions | |
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| Clarity, Acceptance, Altruism: Beyond the Climate of Denial | |
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| A Renewable Future | |
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| Five Transformative Powers | |
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| The End of Energy Waste | |
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| Goodbye to the Internal Combustion Engine | |
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| Tradable Energy Quotas | |
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| Drawing Down Carbon with Biochar | |
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| Reducing the Carbon Footprint of the Meat Industry | |
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| Ending Deforestation | |
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| Reforesting the Earth | |
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| The Bells of Mindfulness | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Endorsement of a Safe Level for Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: The Dalai Lama | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Notes on Translations | |
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| References | |
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| About the Editors | |