Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century

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Every day, in newspapers and on television, we read and hear about the ongoing destruction of the environment: the greenhouse effect, ozone layer depletion, deforestation, and air and water pollution. Deep Ecology offers a solution to the environmental crisis through a radical shift in human consciousness—a fundamental change in the way people relate with the environment. Instead of thinking of nature as a resource to be used for human needs, Deep Ecology argues that the true value of nature is intrinsic and ...

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Overview

Every day, in newspapers and on television, we read and hear about the ongoing destruction of the environment: the greenhouse effect, ozone layer depletion, deforestation, and air and water pollution. Deep Ecology offers a solution to the environmental crisis through a radical shift in human consciousness—a fundamental change in the way people relate with the environment. Instead of thinking of nature as a resource to be used for human needs, Deep Ecology argues that the true value of nature is intrinsic and independent of its utility. Emerging in the 1980s as an influential philosophical, social, and political movement, Deep Ecology has shaped the environmental debate among leading activists and policymakers—from former Vice-President Al Gore to Dave Forman, cofounder of Earth First!

Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century contains thirty-nine articles by the leading writers and thinkers in the filed, offering a comprehensive array of perspectives on this new approach to environmentalism, exploring:

   •  The basic philosophy of Deep Ecology.
   •  Its roots in the writings of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir and Rachel Carson.
   •  The relationship of Deep Ecology to social ecology, ecofeminism, the Greens, and New Age futurism.
   •  How Deep Ecology as a way of life is exemplified by two important environmentalists: poet Gary Snyder and Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess.
   •  The philosophical dimensions of this environmental movement by its leading theorist.
   •  The politics of ecological sustainability and the social and political implications of Deep Ecology for the next century.

Instead of thinking of nature as a resource to be used for human needs, deep ecology argues that the true value of nature is intrinsic. This comprehensive and wide-ranging anthology contains almost 50 articles by the leading writers and thinkers in the field, offering a broad array of perspectives on this important approach to environmentalism.

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Library Journal
This understandable and much-needed anthology attempts to dispel the confusions and misunderstandings about "deep ecology" that have provoked charges of misanthropy from partisans of anthropocentric alternatives and even affected Vice President Al Gore's influential work, Earth in the Balance (LJ 3/1/93). Contributors are recognized theorists, historians, and activists in the deep ecology movement, including editor Sessions, a philosopher; poet Gary Snyder; environmental historian Donald Worster; wilderness advocate Dave Foreman; and the founder of the movement, Norwegian philosopher and mountaineer Arne Naess. In Part 1, various theorists define deep ecology and explore the cultural significance of its ecocentric orientation; Part 2 examines the historical roots of this movement in literature, philosophy, and science; Part 3 consists solely of Naess's recent essays, most of them previously unpublished; Part 4 differentiates deep ecology from social ecology, ecofeminism, and New Age positions; Part 5 explains the connection of deep ecology to wilderness preservation; and Part 6 centers on the dubious politics of sustainable development. An important purchase for academic and larger public libraries.-Joan S. Elbers, formerly with Montgomery Coll., Rockville, Md.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781570620492
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
  • Publication date: 1/28/1995
  • Edition description: 1st ed
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 520
  • Sales rank: 840,141
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.25 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
1 The Viable Human 8
2 Deep Ecology: A New Paradigm 19
3 Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: An Interview with Arne Naess 26
4 Recovery from Western Civilization 37
5 Gary Snyder and the Practice of the Wild 41
6 Cultured or Crabbed 47
7 The New Conservation Movement 50
8 Ritual - the Pattern That Connects 57
9 The Deep Ecological Movement 64
10 The Heart of Deep Ecology 85
11 Environmental Consciousness in Modern Literature: Four Representative Examples 104
12 Killing Wilderness 113
13 Four Forms of Ecological Consciousness Reconsidered 121
14 Ecology and Man - a Viewpoint 131
15 Four Changes 141
16 The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movements: A Summary 151
17 Ecocentrism and the Anthropocentric Detour 156
18 Living in the World: Mountain Humility, Great Humility 195
19 Deepness of Questions and the Deep Ecology Movement 204
20 The Deep Ecology "Eight Points" Revisited 213
21 Equality, Sameness, and Rights 222
22 Self-realization: An Ecological Approach to Being in the World 225
23 Ecosophy and Gestalt Ontology 240
24 Metaphysics of the Treeline 246
25 The Place of Joy in a World of Fact 249
26 Deep Ecology and Lifestyle 259
27 The Deep Ecology-Ecofeminism Debate and Its Parallels 269
28 Deep Ecology and the New Age Movement 290
29 Leaving the Earth: Space Colonies, Disney, and EPCOT 311
30 "In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World" 331
31 The Incarceration of Wildness: Wilderness Areas as Prisons 339
32 Ecocentrism, Wilderness, and Global Ecosystem Protection 356
33 Wildness, Wise Use, and Sustainable Development 376
34 The Third World, Wilderness, and Deep Ecology 397
35 The Shaky Ground of Sustainability 417
36 Global Ecology and the Shadow of "Development" 428
37 Politics and the Ecological Crisis: An Introductory Note 445
38 The Rediscovery of Turtle Island 454
39 Deep Ecology for the Twenty-second Century 463
Selected Bibliography 469
About the Contributors 487
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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 6, 2002

    Deep ecology concept and movement

    It is an anthology on deep ecology. It documents 39 articles which are diveded into six parts. Part one pvovides views on deep ecology by various theorist and addresses the environmental movement. According to Thomas Berry,catholic theologian,Industrial entrepreneurs have promoted an economic /technological/consumerist wonderland, wheareas in actuality they are creating a 'wasteland'for both humans and the rest of the nature. Reducing the planet to a resource base for consumer use, is already a spiritual and psychic degradation. Part two provides history of the development of deep ecology.Historical root in modern literature is the environmental consciousness expressed by 20th century writers like D.H.Lawrence,Aldus Huxley,Robinson Jeffers and Gary Snyder. Part three is devoted to deep ecology and deep ecology movement bt Arne Naess. Part four discusses the issues of the relation of deep ecology to gender issues i.e. ecofeminism;relation of deep ecology to social justice i.e. social ecology and comments the new age anthropocentric megatechnological utopia scenarios for the future. Part five discusses wilderness and wild. Lastly Part six centres on the politics of ecological sustainability.

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