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This study shows that many people in the US feel guilt about their everyday life. It explores many ethical questions including whether individuals or collectives are the guilty or shameful parties, whether agents should have these feelings, whether people should induce guilt or shame in others, and how people can respond to such feelings.

1. Introduction -- 2. Sustainability : a technical and normative endeavor -- 3. Index theory -- 4. Comparative ethics for sustainability -- 5. An ethical examination of sustainability indexes -- 6. Environmental justice: a resource for sustainability indexes? -- 7. Aggregating local indicators -- 8. Ethics in sustainability indexes.

The indexes used by local, national, and international governments to monitor progress toward sustainability do not adequately align with their ethical priorities and have a limited ability to monitor and promote sustainability. This book gives a theoretical and practical demonstration of how ethics and technical considerations can aid the development of sustainability indexes to overcome this division in the literature and aid sustainability initiatives.Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability develops and illustrates methods of linking technical and normative concerns durin

Using the resources of theology and ethics to bring religion into the climate engineering debate, this book considers the moral questions raised by scientists, engineers, and philosophers while adding new questions and insights to the debate. Readers new to the discussion will be introduced in an engaging and thoughtful manner, while those who already work on this issue will wrestle with it in a new way.