Sentence examples for deep ecologist from inspiring English sources

Deep ecologist and Earth-scholar Thomas Berry once said: It's all a question of story.

His inner Deep Ecologist may dream of Earth saying good riddance to us, but he finds some causes for hope amid the general run of man-bites-planet bad news.

A "deep" ecologist would clean up a pond because plants and animals deserve to be free of pollution; a "shallow" ecologist would preserve the pond so that his grandchildren could have a nice place to swim.

The deep ecologist respects this intrinsic value, taking care, for example, when walking on the mountainside not to cause unnecessary damage to the plants.

Deep ecologists also claim that humans need to regain a "spiritual" relationship with nonhuman nature.

Deep ecologists often contrast their own position with what they refer to as the "shallow ecology" of other environmentalists.

Deep ecologists often call that conception of human nature the "ecological self," and it represents humans acting and being in harmony with nature, not in opposition to it.

Some practitioners of ecofeminism and social ecology accused deep ecologists of having an inauthentic and superficial spirituality and not valuing issues of gender, class, and race highly enough.

He neatly dismisses most environmentalists as either "deep ecologists" or "planet managers". Deep ecologists hold that "humans have no right to a larger role in nature than raccoons". Planet managers "are the crazed futurists, the sort of people who would make cows legless milk-dispensers, conveniently stackable". One might have hoped for more insightful descriptions.

Lest that sound too attractive, he said he wanted to unmask Deep Ecologists for what he says they are: remnants of the communist left bent on creating a police state.

Those critics point to the creation of the Church of Deep Ecology in Minnesota in 1991 as an example of how the movement had devolved into a spiritual and mystical approach to nature rather than a way to solve environmental problems.. Ecofeminists and social ecologists, groups having a great deal in common with deep ecologists, also found fault with the social movement.