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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Introduction: Regarding Our Predicament | |
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| Science crashes up against biblical belief | |
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| Cultures and ethnicities come crashing into our space | |
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| Founding myths clash with the real world | |
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| The obsolescence of the nation-state | |
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| Of Earthquakes and Hurricanes or, Learning to Face Disaster | |
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| Living earth | |
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| When humans try to outwit nature | |
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| Investing in disaster | |
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| It's about a relationship | |
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| Climate Change or, Facing Human Extinction | |
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| It's happening | |
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| Because of the warming | |
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| The End of "Cheap Oil" or, The Imminent Upset of Our Way of Life | |
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| The energy conundrum | |
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| A lesson shelved | |
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| Our energy predicament | |
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| Dirty coal and the death of mountains | |
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| Food or fuel? | |
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| Farewell to the energy pipe dream | |
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| Living Beyond Our Means or, Embracing Simplicity Whether We Want To or Not | |
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| Spending down life | |
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| Being better off is killing us | |
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| Multiple collapses | |
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| What to do with all those poor people | |
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| The setting of religion must enlarge | |
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| A World of Trouble or, It's Going to Get a Bit Tense Out There | |
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| The new foreign policy: It's all about access | |
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| Blowback and the balance of power | |
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| Oil = corruption and repression | |
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| The United States spreads its military tentacles | |
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| Water and food, you know, what we need to live | |
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| Finally, inescapably, 9/11 | |
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| The End of the American Dream or, When Dream Turns into Nightmare | |
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| An unaffordable middle class | |
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| Road kill | |
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| A yawning gap | |
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| Living on credit | |
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| How bad is it? | |
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| But we're not happy! | |
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| So who are we really? | |
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| Alienation from Nature or, Letting an Old Story Go | |
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| Living wrongly | |
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| The problem with social justice | |
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| Is our religion up to it? | |
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| From alienation to connection: Restoring trust in nature | |
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| In search of a new story | |
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| Business as usual must stop | |
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| Ecological Hope or, Living Beyond the "End of the World" | |
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| A creation story | |
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| Enlarging our sense of God | |
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| Turning toward what? | |
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| A dark night, a deep dying | |
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| The role of US Americans | |
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| Are we up to the challenge? | |
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| And in Conclusion or, What Kind of Human Beings Will We Be as We Go Through the Crisis? | |
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| First, restoring a primary relationship | |
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| Kinship | |
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| The role of religion | |
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| Turning | |
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| Living in a world of trouble | |
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| Getting to work, the great work, that is | |
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| Loaves and fishes: A spirituality for the coming times | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |