Introduction:This book ;An initial example ;Looking ahead ;Value and nature ;Ethics and grub ;What's new? ;Transparency and responsibility -The earth in crisis:The signs ;Analysing ecocrisis ;Science and technology -Ethics:What is ethics? ;Realism vs. relativism ;The naturalistic fallacy ;Religious ethics ;Secular ethics -Three schools of ethics:Deontology ('rights') ;Consequentialism ('effects') ;Virtue ethics ;A green virtue ethic -Value:Some issues ;Anthropocentrism ;Ecocentrism -Light green or shallow (anthropocentric) ethics:What is a light green ethic? ;Environmentalism ;Lifeboat ethics -Mid-green or intermediate ethics:Animal liberation ;Animal rights ;Biocentrism ;Animals and us ;Wild animals ;Domestic animals ;On (not) eating animals : the options -Dark green or deep (ecocentric) ethics:A suggested definition ;The land ethic ;Gaia theory ;Deep ecology ;Deep green theory ;Left biocentrism ;Ecocentrism and the Left ;The Earth manifesto ;The Earth charter -Ecofeminism:A master mentality ;Ecofeminism in action ;Ecofeminism and ethics -Deep green ethics as post-secular:Dogmatic secularism ;An ecocentric spirituality ;Animism ;Green Buddhism? -Moral pluralism and pragmatism:The poverty of monism ;The consequences of pluralism ;Multicentrism -Green citizenship and education:Making it real ;A long revolution ;Ecological education ;Traditional ecological knowledge ;Ecological Republicanism ;A note on wisdom -rounding ecological ethics:The food system ;On Malthus ;Climate change ;Wind power and energy ;Nuclear energy ;Geo-engineering ;Carbon trading and ecosystem service : the new gods of the market ;Sustainability ;The limits to growth ;A left ecocentric guide to capitalism ;Alternatives ;Movements in the right direction -Human overpopulation:The problem ;Analysing overpolulation ;Taking on the arguments ;Climate change again ;Overpopulation and ecocentrism ; -Postscript.