PHIL 293 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: James Lovelock, Egalitarianism, Deep Ecology
9 Jan 2017
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Deep ecology: considered to be all racial environmentalism, but really is just one strand of environmentalism. Seems to be the main scapegoat of anti- environmentalist. Arene naess 1973 - the shallow and the deep, long-range ecology movement: a. Summary: biospheric egalitarianism" - received as all living things are equal. All realistic praxis requires some killing, exploitation and suppression . All living things are valuable, and although it does happen, we should never treat them as a resource: ecology, community and lifestyle (1989) more suggestions rather than inclusionary law, ecosophy-t. The eco-sphere has intrinsic value (not just value as a resource) Humans have no right to reduce biodiversity except to satisfy vital needs. We need to decrease human population to sustain biodiversity and the quality of human life. We nee fundamental changes in economic, technological and ideological structures. Quality of life - not standard of living is i"m portent.
