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Explores the philosophical, psychological, and sociological roots of today's environmental movement, the human-centered assumptions behind most approaches to nature, and the possibilities of an expanded human consciousness. It also offers specific direct action suggestions for individuals to practice.
Explores the philosophical, psychological, and sociological roots of today's environmental movement, the human-centered assumptions behind most approaches to nature, and the possibilities of an expanded human consciousness. It also offers specific direct action suggestions for individuals to practice.
Explores the philosophical, psychological, and sociological roots of today's environmental movement, the human-centered assumptions behind most approaches to nature, and the possibilities of an expanded human consciousness. It also offers specific direct action suggestions for individuals to practice.
The celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Trumpeter is a good time to take another look atthe deep ecology movement and its development. A so-called “new conservation” movement
has recently emerged that claims the traditional conservation/environmental movement (and
deep ecology) had it all wrong. I will offer an informal summary of the deep ecology movement,
while referencing more detailed analyses of the issues. Finally I will refer to a powerful new
critique of the “new conservation” movement, inspired by the leading conservation biologist
Michael Soulé: Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth.