Michael Northcott is a professor of religion and ecology at the Indonesian Consortium of Religious Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2019–), and emeritus professor of ethics at the University of Edinburgh (2018–). He was guest professor at the University of Heidelberg in 2018. His most recent books include A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming (2008), A Political Theology of Climate Change (2013), and Place, Ecology and the Sacred: The Moral Geography of Sustainable Communities (2015).