Climate Justice, Climate Hope
- Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
- Publisher: Fortress Press (Augsburg Fortress)
- Published: 2025
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Publisher's Description
Addressing climate change in ways that build capacity, equity, and compassion among people may be the great moral-spiritual challenge of our time in history. This slim volume is an invitation to face that challenge with hope and in companionship with people worldwide. In this latest addition to the Building a Moral Economy series, Reverends Malcom and mohaupt equip readers for fruitful, intersectional action toward climate justice, calling for racial justice, equity, and democratic forms of economic life. Readers will cultivate a sense of community with people around the world who are working for climate justice and economies with justice and joy for all living beings. What can it mean to acknowledge the stark horrors of climate change while building hope and moral-spiritual agency for a brighter future? Bringing decades of leadership experience in interfaith efforts toward environmental and climate justice, Malcom and mohaupt guide readers along pathways toward a clear-eyed but energizing vision of different ways of being. With engaging stories of companions across the globe, they lead readers in a spiritually rooted and hope-filled journey, while also staring unblinkingly into the realities of extractive capitalism and white supremacy that have undergirded climate injustice. Their humor and straight talk entertain readers while providing access to complex thought and difficult topics of environmental racism and climate injustice. Their accessible language and personal approach draw one into a story of climate hope that is emerging worldwide. Readers meet faith-forebearers speaking in Scripture and unsung heroes spanning generations, creeds, and continents who are boldly and bravely organizing and acting for our shared planet and our human community. This book is an invitation to join the song of all creation in the quest to build economies of life for Earth's fragile climate and Earth's creatures.
Endorsements (7)
“If you feel overwhelmed about the climate crisis and think there is little you can do, this book is for you! Malcom and mohaupt's dialogical (ad)venture is an empowering call to action designed to raise not only our consciousness but also our voices, hands, and feet, all in order to "grow the bigger we." The result is a story-based, biblically rooted, hope-filled, eye-opening, deeply personal, outwardly practical call for the healing of the world that God so loves. It is a book of blessing.”
“Michael Malcom and abby mohaupt have been in the trenches of the climate struggle for a generation, and their blend of deep faith and impassioned commitment is as fresh and important now as ever. Faith communities can and must rise--and Michael and abby are helping light the way.”
“Climate Justice, Climate Hope is a powerful call to honor our sacred connection to all life. This book weaves together compelling stories and moral arguments, urging us to dismantle systems that harm both humanity and the earth. It inspires a vision of an inclusive and caring world where we recognize our responsibility to heal our planet and each other.”
“This is no ordinary conversation. It is sacred witness. Two wise climate activists speak with the urgency of prophets and the tenderness of pastors. Their stories awaken the heart and equip us to act boldly, faithfully, and imaginatively in the face of our shared crisis.”
“In an astounding feat, Climate Justice, Climate Hope enables readers to grapple with the role of racism and capitalism in the devastating realities of climate chansge, but without overwhelming us with despair. Malcom and mohaupt craft an accessible, fresh vision of environmentally just possibilities. They highlight stories of everyday business initiatives, neighborhood activism, and Christian faith resources that undermine planet-destroying, white-supremacist economic relationships and instead create bold, spiritually nurturing practices of equitable societal transformation.”
“What I most appreciate about this book is the foundational partnership between Michael Malcom and abby mohaupt that led to its creation. This book is dialogical--a sharing of experience and perspective between two thoughtful people who come from different places but have arrived at the same conclusion. Climate change as we experience it in our moment of geologic time can reasonably be described as the result of sin, and that sin, at its core, can be described as remarkable acts of selfishness. Further, although the Christian gospel contains all the seeds of liberation necessary to lead us away from our sin and into redemption, the Christian tradition in our theological time is too often bought and sold by massive corporate interests whose primary concern is financial gain, not community wholeness. This is a book designed to compel us to action, and it should be read in community, for we all we need to find strength in one another for that work.”
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