Pathways to a New Environmental Ethic

<p> We live under the threat of humanity's self-inflicted extinction. While technological approaches to climate mitigation are admirable our ecological crisis results ultimately from an inherited unexamined concept of selfhood and a misconceived view of nature. The received idea that our self exists inside our skull engenders an assumption that nature is out there with devastating results.</p><p> This book explores three new ways of thinking about the interrelation of ourselves and nature: Merleau-Ponty's notion of embodiment the connection between enactivism and affordances and object oriented ontology. These approaches to selfhood reorder our moral obligations: What are our responsibilities to ourselves our children and nature itself? An embodied ethic can transcend cultural biases and offer a new way of confronting climate change. To meet environmental challenges we need to change our minds about our minds.</p>