Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint

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B L E S S E D ARE T HE CON S UM E RS BLESSED ARE THE CONSUMERS Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint ! Sallie McFague Fortress Press Minneapolis B LESSED A RE THE CO NSU M ERS Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint Copyright ©  Fortress Press. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Visit http://www.augsburgfortress.org/copyrights/ or write to Permissions, Augsburg Fortress, Box , Minneapolis, MN . Cover image: Seedling growing in cracked mud © Ocean / Orbis Cover design: Laurie Ingram Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McFague, Sallie. Blessed are the consumers : climate change and the practice of restraint / Sallie McFague. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN ---- (alk. paper) — ---- (ebook) . Human ecology—Religious aspects—Christianity. . Consumerism (Economics)—Religious aspects—Christianity. . Christian saints— Biography. I. Title. BT..M  .’—dc  Print ISBN: ---- Digital ISBN: ---- The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z.-. Manufactured in the U.S.A. To Michael West, editor par excellence and my longtime friend and fellow theologian. ...