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Bloggers confessing that they waste food, non-governmental organizations naming corporations selling unsustainably harvested seafood, and veterans apologizing to Native Americans at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation for environmental and social devastation caused by the US government all signal the existence of action-oriented guilt and identity-oriented shame about participation in environmental degradation. Environmental Guilt and Shame demonstrates that these moral emotions are common among environmentally friendly segments of the US but have received little attention from environmental ethicists. Environmental Guilt and Shame makes three major claims: first, individuals and collectives can have identity, agency, and responsibility and thus guilt and shame. Second, some agents, including collectives, should feel guilt and/or shame for environmental degradation if they hold environmental values and think that their actions shape and reveal their identity. Third, a number of conditions are required to conceptually, existentially, and practically deal with guilt and shame's effects on agents. These conditions can be developed and maintained through rituals. Existing rituals need more development to fully deal with individual and collective guilt and shame as well as the anthropogenic environmental degradation that may spark them.

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Sarah E. Fredericks is associate professor of environmental ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is the author of Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability: Ethics in Sustainability Indexes. Sara Sheckells is an Earphones Award recipient for ensemble narration. She is also featured among AudioFile magazine's Voices to Know. Performing both fiction and nonfiction works, Sara has voiced over 110 audiobooks. A lifelong New Englander, Sara came to narration as an avid listener and longtime pupil of dramatic arts and vocal performance. Her audiobook work has been described as ""emotionally connected"" and ""engaging."" Sara was a radio host and performed as a costumed tour guide before launching a long-term career in academia. She loves dogs, coffee, and anything witchy. Sara lives north of Boston with her ""wicked smaaht"" family. Sara Sheckells is an Earphones Award recipient for ensemble narration. She is also featured among AudioFile magazine's Voices to Know. Performing both fiction and nonfiction works, Sara has voiced over 110 audiobooks. A lifelong New Englander, Sara came to narration as an avid listener and longtime pupil of dramatic arts and vocal performance. Her audiobook work has been described as ""emotionally connected"" and ""engaging."" Sara was a radio host and performed as a costumed tour guide before launching a long-term career in academia. She loves dogs, coffee, and anything witchy. Sara lives north of Boston with her ""wicked smaaht"" family.

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