Michael Northcott, who is a CHE fellow and Professor of Ethics at Edinburgh University, has just released a new book, A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming, which takes a strongly human ecological approach to the problem of climate change.

Michael said: "In the book I suggest that we cannot fix our relationship with the atmosphere without a deeper reform of our cultures of dwelling, eating, growing, making, trading and traveling.

"I also suggest that the forms of denial and addiction manifest in our refusal to respond to the natural signs the planet is now visiting on us in the climate system are indicative of a false philosophy of liberal autonomy and
cosmological mechanism, and a lack of spiritual consciousness of our situatedness in a cosmos that is connected across time and space by spirit as well as by complex material systems like the climate."

The book has a foreword by Sir John Houghton, one of Britain's best known climate scientists, and costs £12. Signed copies will be available throughout the Edinburgh Book Festival in the book tent on Charlotte Square, where Michael recently spoke in a panel session with Tony Juniper.

A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming is published by Darton Longman and Todd/Orbis Books and printed on FSC certified paper.