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Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism

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ISBN-10: 1570620490

ISBN-13: 9781570620492

Edition: 1995

Authors: George Sessions

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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 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…    
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Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/24/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 520
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.38" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Preface
The Viable Human
Deep Ecology: A New Paradigm
Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: An Interview with Arne Naess
Recovery from Western Civilization
Gary Snyder and the Practice of the Wild
Cultured or Crabbed
The New Conservation Movement
Ritual - the Pattern That Connects
The Deep Ecological Movement
The Heart of Deep Ecology
Environmental Consciousness in Modern Literature: Four Representative Examples
Killing Wilderness
Four Forms of Ecological Consciousness Reconsidered
Ecology and Man - a Viewpoint
Four Changes
The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movements: A Summary
Ecocentrism and the Anthropocentric Detour
Living in the World: Mountain Humility, Great Humility
Deepness of Questions and the Deep Ecology Movement
The Deep Ecology "Eight Points" Revisited
Equality, Sameness, and Rights
Self-realization: An Ecological Approach to Being in the World
Ecosophy and Gestalt Ontology
Metaphysics of the Treeline
The Place of Joy in a World of Fact
Deep Ecology and Lifestyle
The Deep Ecology-Ecofeminism Debate and Its Parallels
Deep Ecology and the New Age Movement
Leaving the Earth: Space Colonies, Disney, and EPCOT
"In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World"
The Incarceration of Wildness: Wilderness Areas as Prisons
Ecocentrism, Wilderness, and Global Ecosystem Protection
Wildness, Wise Use, and Sustainable Development
The Third World, Wilderness, and Deep Ecology
The Shaky Ground of Sustainability
Global Ecology and the Shadow of "Development"
Politics and the Ecological Crisis: An Introductory Note
The Rediscovery of Turtle Island
Deep Ecology for the Twenty-second Century
Selected Bibliography
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