*** Dedication

*** A caveat to the reader

*** Acknowledgments

** Prologue

** Chapter 1: Becoming human

** Chapter 2: From ‘selfish genes’ to Mother ‘Gaia’

** Chapter 3: The new Malthusians

** Chapter 4: From ecomysticism to angelology

** Chapter 5: The myth of the primitive

** Chapter 6: Technophobia and its tribulations

** Chapter 7: Postmodernist nihilism

** Chapter 8: Science and anti-science: anything goes

** Chapter 9: Re-enchanting humanity

** Epilogue