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ARTICLES Biocentrism: Ideology Against Nature - Do or Die Down With Empire, Up With Spring - Do or Die Biodiversity and Its Loss - Do or Die The Eternal Threat - Do or Die Nature As Spectacle: The Image of Wilderness vs. Wildness - Feral Faun Beyond Earth First! - Feral Faun A Lesson in Earth Civics - Chellis Glendinning BOOKS How Deep is Deep Ecology? - George Bradford Feral Revolution - Feral Faun (available from our distro) Women and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her - Susan Griffin Listening to the Land - Derrick Jensen Radical Ecology & The Death of Nature - Carolyn Merchant Deep Ecology for the 21st Century - George Sessions A Green History of the World - Ponting Dwellers of the Land - Kirkpatrick Sale Turtle Island &The Practice of the Wild: Essays - Gary Snyder Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash - Brian Tokar Beyond Bookchin: Preface to a Future Social Ecology - David Watson |
Ecology, the understanding of the interaction between species and the earth, is very important in understanding our relationship with the environments that surround us. There is an intricate web of life in which all plants and animals (including humans) are connected. Nature isn't perfect but it does achieve somewhat of a balance, and in that balance we can understand the ecology of a place. Humans were once part of that balance with the Earth, living close and as an integral part of it. Ten thousand years ago, the domination of nature and the civilized paradigm disrupted the balance and severed many strands of the web. Since that time, the Earth and its inhabitants have suffered greatly at our hands. Entire species have gone extinct, forests have disappeared, and those humans who attempted to stay in balance with the Earth were either killed or forced to assimilate. In the past 500 years, the birth of a mechanized world view and the industrial revolution has brought our planet to the brink of catastrophe
One way of analyzing the extreme discord between the world-views of primitive and earth-based societies and of civilization, is that of ecocentric vs. biocentric outlooks. Ecocentrism is a perspective that centers and connects us to the earth and the complex web of life, while biocentrism, the dominant world view of western culture, places our primary focus on human society, to the exclusion of the rest of life. An ecocentric view does not reject human society, but does move it out of the status of superiority and puts it into balance with all other life forces. It places a priority on a bioregional outlook, one that is deeply connected to the plants, animals, insects, climate, geographic features, and spirit of the place we inhabit. There is no split between ourselves and our environment, so there can be no objectification or otherness to life. Where separation and objectification are at the base of our ability to dominate and control, interconnectedness is a prerequisite for deep nurturing, care, and understanding. Green anarchists strives to move beyond human-centered ideas and decisions into a humble respect for all life and the dynamics of the ecosystems that sustain us.