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Deep Ecology

Eco-apocalyptics March 31, 2008

[New Internationalist, August, 1990] Greens have not escaped the tendency to offer simplistic solutions to complex problems.

Deep ecology: No more 'people' March 31, 2008

[The Stanford Daily, May 19, 2005] The phrase could mean “no more people than we have now” — limiting our population for the sake of other species — or it even could mean “zero people.” There’s a group called the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement with the slogan, “May we live long and die out.”

WHAT IS DEEP ECOLOGY? March 31, 2008

[Encyclopedia Of Earth, March 2002] The central idea of Deep Ecology is that we are part of the earth, rather than apart and separate from it.

Introduction To Deep Ecology March 31, 2008

[Global Climate Change, 1989] Deep ecology is a new way to think about our relationship to the Earth - and thinking is a prelude to action

Revolutionary Ecology March 31, 2008

[Redwood Summer Justice Project, 1995] Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature.

The Deep Ecology Platform March 31, 2008

[Green Web Publications] The eight-point Deep Ecology Platform at present provides the unifying principles of the deep ecology movement.

Ken Wilber’s Critique of Deep Ecology and Nature Religion: A Response March 31, 2008

[Gus diZerega] Modern environmentalists and spiritual traditions in sympathy with them constitute a great and dangerous error, according to Ken Wilber in his new books Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, and A Brief History of Everything.

Ecophilosophy, Ecosophy and the Deep Ecology Movement: An Overview March 31, 2008

[Ecocentrism Homepage, 1990] During the last thirty years philosophers in the West have critiqued the underlying assumptions of Modern philosophy in relation to the natural world. This development has been part of an ongoing expansion of philosophical work involving cross cultural studies of world views or ultimate philosophies.

Deep Ecology, Ecoactivism, And Human Evolution March 31, 2008

[Michael E. Zimmerman] In the face of the ecological problems now plauging Earth,increasing numbers of people are demanding that sweeping actionbe taken before those problemscause irreparable damage to the ecosphere.

Ecofeminism vs. Deep Ecology March 31, 2008

[Christina Nelson] The dangerous levels of pollution and the suppression of people existing in many third world countries today is largely because of the appropriation of Western industry and technology.

ETHICS AND TRAUMA: LEVINAS, FEMINISM, AND DEEP ECOLOGY March 31, 2008

[Cross Currents, 1994] Levinas's concept of the other, born out of the trauma of the Holocaust, is challenged by both feminism and deep ecology.

Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism: A Sabbatical Seminar March 31, 2008

[Genesis of Eden] The relative merits of deep ecology and ecofeminism has recently received considerable attention, primarily from an ecofeminist perspective. This question has an obvious significance to anyone concerned with ecophilosophy and ecopolitics since it contrasts two of the most philosophically and socially influential approaches that have developed in response to ecological concerns.

Deep Ecology and Animal Rights March 31, 2008

[Green Web Publications, January 9, 2000] The deep ecology and the animal rights movements are helping to change consciousness, away from human centeredness and the automatic assumptions of "resource rights" to exploit wildlife and the natural world.