‘A shallow, but presently rather powerful movement, and a deep, but less influential movement, compete for our attention.’ ~ Arne Naess, The shallow and the deep, long-range ecology movement: A summary, 1973. Deep ecology calls for an emotional, moral, eco-philosophical and intellectual response to the ecological crises, in a political project of re-embedding humans as equals in the natural world. In a 1973 essay in the journal Inquiry, the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess criticised the contemporaneous environmentalism as being human-centric, of saving nature to simply benefit human desires. He drew a distinction between two kinds of environmentalism: ‘Shallow ecology’ was…
Author: Matt Hanley
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