Ecologism
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- Created on: 12-03-18 12:18
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- Ecologism
- Overview
- Coined by Ernst Haeckel
- 'the investigations of total relations of the animal both to its organic and inorganic environment'
- Studies relationship - living organisms + their environment
- Nature = interconnected whole, embracing humans + non humans + inanimate beings in world
- Multiple strains
- Shallow = harness lessons of ecology to human ends + needs - modernist/reformist approach to environmental change
- Deep = reject any belief humans superior to any other species
- Eco- socialism
- Eco-anarchism
- Eco-feminism
- Coined by Ernst Haeckel
- Founding Principles
- Ecology
- Recognise animals + plants sustained by self-regulating natural systems
- All ecosystems tend towards state of harmony by system of self-regualtion
- Natural World = complex web of ecosystems
- Conflicts w/notion humankind = masters of nature
- Arne Naess = Deep + Shallow ecology
- Holism
- Whole more important than parts - understanding gained by studying relationship among parts
- Trad ideologies assume hb as masters of natural world
- Each part only has meaning in relation to other parts
- Self-actualisation
- Against materialism
- Consumption = happiness
- Environmental Ethics
- Look after Earth for future generations
- We are custodians to Earth
- Sustainability
- Kenneth Boulding - Spaceship Earth
- HB act as if live in 'cowboy economy' - unlimited oppurtunities
- Open systems = receive energy from outside - sun
- Closed systems = decay because not sustained by external inputs
- Ecology
- Key thinkers
- James Lovelock
- Gaia
- Arne Naess
- Deep + Shallow
- Fritjof Capra
- Traced origins of humans as masters back to Descartes and Newton - 'The turning point'
- James Lovelock
- Overview
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