Contents Preface ix Introduction xiii 1 Triangulating 1 Winter solstice 1 Soil work 2 Disorientation (a history) 3 Learning to listen 5 Troubling landscapes 8 Decomposition 12 Prayer 16 2 Making terra nullius 19 Spring equinox 19 Making soil 20 Terraformation 21 Prayer plows 23 Terra nullius and the Doctrine of Discovery 26 Naming land, claiming land 28 Land as property 29 Land as resource 31 Land as verb 35 Prayer 38 3 Compost Cosmologies 43 Summer solstice 43 Everything is compost 43 Land work 48 Being compost 50 Death is not a metaphor 55 Disintegration, decomposition 57 4 The Geography of Sin 60 Midsummer 60 Bad faith 62 Humans in the carbon cycle 64 Climate hedonism 67 Structural violence, collective sin 69 The fire, inferno 73 After the fire 75 Climate apocalypse in the built environment 76 Prayer 78 5 Becoming Place, Fermenting Culture 80 Fall equinox 80 Practice makes process 81 Preserving culture 83 Space and time 89 The weight of the world 91 Prayer 95 6 God is Change: Beyond Creation Care 99 Persephone 99 Feedback loops 100 Climate anxiety 103 Towards experience 106 From creation care, towards caring, creating 109 God is a gardener 112 Prayer 113