Acknowledgments
Introduction
Flying on Faith • A Call to Hear • People against Nature • An Indigenous Perspective • The Paradoxical Thesis • The Intellectual Journey
1. Our Christian Heritage
Plague and Passion Play • Anthropocentrism and Original Sin • Insecurity Breeds Concentration of Power • Medieval Repression of People • Secularizing Jeopardy and Power • The Separation of Mind from Body
2. Commercialism
The Five-Part Pattern in Commercialism • Comparative Advantage and the Promised Future
3. Industrialism
Standardization and Centralization • Industrialism and Commercialism • The Industrial Revolution, Colonialism, and Slavery • Faith in Progress • Class Stratification • Skepticism about Darwin’s Theory • The Industrial Evolutionary Theory • Social Darwinism’s Justification of Inequality • Sociobiology and the Subordination of Women • Suppressing Individuality
4. Nationalism, Bureaucracy, and the Holocaust
The Importance of Government • The Importance of Nationalism • Dachau and Anti-Semitism • The Inadequacy of Hate • The Nature of Bureaucracy • The Importance of Bureaucracy • Moral Progress • Departure
5. Nuclear Power and Radiation Exposure
The Hearing Begins • Dangers of Radiation • Uranium Miners • Uranium Mining as a Radiation Pump • Impact on Indigenous Communities • Creating Radioactivity • International Conspiracy • The Politics of Nuclear Waste • Unjust Distribution of Risks
6. Nuclear Power and Human Oppression
Government Subsidies and Financial Failures • Borrowing from Future Generations • The Scarcity of Uranium • Plutonium as a Military Threat • The Global Warming Rationale • The Gulf War • Rejecting Responsibility
7. Indigenous Peace and Prosperity
Why Discuss Indigenous Cultures? • Stateless, Egalitarian Indigenous People • Statelessness and Violence • Food Abundance and Population Control • Poverty and Exchange • Industrial Poverty
8. Indigenous World Views
Natural Sufficiency and Cyclical Time • Meaning, Security, and Individualism • Rootedness and the Expansion of Society • The Noncommercial and Sacred • Indigenous World Views Are Nature-Friendly
9. Implications
Promoting Change • Family Values • Crime, Pornography, Drug Abuse, and the Work Ethic • Creating Jeopardy Is Good Business • Rejecting Utopian Thinking • Invention Is the Mother of Necessity • New Faith and Values
10. Practical Suggestions
An Alternative Politics • Agriculture • International Trade • Transportation • Energy, Equity, and Population Control • Living with Nature
The Flight Home
Smoke in the Cabin • Choosing What to Believe • Denial
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