Schneider: When you're covering climate change, you don't get somebody
from a deep ecology group to tell you we're near the end of the world and then somebody from the Competitive Enterprise Institute who's going to tell you carbon dioxide is a fertilizer while forgetting about ocean acidification.
From deep ecology we learn both to affirm our kinship with fellow creatures and to allow evolutionary history — past, present, and future — to serve as a frame of reference through which we understand ourselves.
Not exact matches
By contrast «
deep» environmentalism — that is,
deep ecology — adopts a cooperative perspective, believing that human beings are inseparable
from that web of life of which they are a part, and that other members of the web are equally as valuable as humans.
From a Whiteheadian point of view, and also for animal rights theorists, it is
deep ecology that seems in this respect to be anthropocentric.
Thus the recognition of the subjectivity of every actual entity, as well as its derivation of value
from others, is an essential part of what would be for us «
deep»
ecology.
He's long noted the irony that while trackers have
deep knowledge of animals and
ecology, many are excluded
from science because they can not read or write.
It is an American book and inevitably many examples, particularly of intertidal
ecology, are
from the American Atlantic and Pacific coasts, but in this edition Nybakken includes more material
from elsewhere, and many topics, plankton biology and
deep sea biology, for example, are global in their scope.
His areas of expertise are paleoceanography of surface and
deep - ocean circulation using micropaleontological and geochemical tracers; planktonic foraminiferal
ecology and paleoecology; and paleoclimatology
from cave deposits.
He joined the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in 1983, where he has undertaken research on topics ranging
from the
ecology of larval fish and
deep - sea communities to development of proxies in biogenic carbonates and impacts of climate change on marine populations.
Alex Garland's film gets momentum
from the
deeper it pushes into the uncertainties of
ecology and the self.
Writer - director Alex Garland's Annihilation gets momentum
from the
deeper it pushes into the uncertainties of
ecology and the self.
This is challenge that requires
deep educational innovations of global willingness that promotes intrinsic reforms
from its own ontological nature of the
ecology of the intelligence; and become, ultimately, in the genesis of a cognitive democracy: composed by new transcultural and transpolitical symbiosis between the different civilizations that have been formed on the earthly homeland in the last six millenniums.
It is now apparent that the greatest impact of digital technology comes
from its
deep - seated infusion and use in every facet of an organisation's operations and the part it plays in facilitating the growth of evolving synergistic, higher order
ecologies that can improve productivity.
This is
deep ecology in a nutshell, and by the first decade of the twenty - first century, the majority of educated people is finally going along with it, even if they may not realize where the idea came
from.
David Orton (a self - described «anti-industrial biocentrist»), wrote a long appreciation of Naess (pdf),
from which I've excerpted this short interpretation of the philosopher's distinction between
deep and shallow
ecology:
In recent years, a number of integrative disciplines — systems science, resilience science, ecosystem health, ethnoecology,
deep ecology, Gaia Theory, and others — have sought ways to advance our understanding of the relationships between people and nature, incorporating insights
from both the biological and social sciences as well as Indigenous knowledge.