Deep Ecology founder Arne Naess has died

Arne Naess, the Norwegian philosopher who introduced the concept of "deep ecology" has died. (Norway Post, AP.)

His short article from 1973 in which he lays out the principles of deep ecology as contrasted with shallow ecology is online here: The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement (and probably elsewhere). Some excerpts:

The emergence of ecologists from their former relative obscurity marks a turning point in our scientific communities. But their message is twisted and misused. A shallow, but presently rather powerful movement, and a deep, but less influential movement, compete for our attention. I shall make an effort to characterize the two.

I. The Shallow Ecology movement:

Fight against pollution and resource depletion.
Central objective: the health and affluence of people in the developed countries.

II. The Deep Ecology movement:

1. Rejection of the man-in-environment image in favor the relational, total-field image. [...]
2. Biospherical egalitarianism-in principle. [...]
3. Principles of diversity and of symbiosis. [...]
4. Anti-class posture. [...]
5. Fight against pollution and resource depletion. [...]
6. Complexity, not complication. [...]
7. Local autonomy and decentralization. [...]

See also the Foundation for Deep Ecology, which has a good summary of the movement's history.

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