ABSTRACT
This chapter concludes the second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology by recounting the children’s story, Milo and the Magic Stones (1997), by Marcus Pfister. The message of the story is: either we act in a thoughtful, environmentally responsible manner, taking only what we need and expressing gratitude for what we receive or we proceed down the dangerous path of excessive consumption and materialism, and suffer the consequences of greed, envy, and environmental pillaging. The chapter asserts that as Milo and the Magic Stones instructs and as many of the chapters in the second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology have attempted to describe—whether it is biodiversity loss, climate change, or pollution—humans have choices and opportunities to change our relationships to the Earth. Those changes will require trying more than (just) trusting. The chapter concludes that the second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology has demonstrated how and where humans need to try (to change)—and why we should try to do so.
