BOOK BRIEFS

tephanie Kaza combines decades of Buddhist practice with scientific training in natural history and ecology in (Shambhala 2019). Through stories of personal struggle and anxiety with the devastating facts of climate change, the book attempts to address the grave situation of our environment with an optimistic, Buddhist-inspired activism. Kaza sees that Buddhist ideas such as compassion, interdependence, and no-self can be uniquely applicable not only to our practices but also, by extension, to our environmental concerns. As just one example, she offers the “Indra’s Net” practice as a way of building up our spiritual capacities to meet the challenges of climate