Global Ecovillage Network/Solution Library/Embrace deep ecology

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To find a secular moral framework to define our relationship with all of creation. A philosophy that recognises the rights and value of all life regardless of it's uses to humans.

Deep ecology is a contemporary ecological and environmental philosophy characterized by its advocacy of the inherent worth of living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, and advocacy for a radical restructuring of modern human societies in accordance with such ideas.

Deep ecology argues that the natural world is a subtle balance of complex inter-relationships in which the existence of organisms is dependent on the existence of others within ecosystems. Human interference with or destruction of the natural world poses a threat therefore not only to humans but to all organisms constituting the natural order. Deep ecology's core principle is the belief that the living environment as a whole should be respected and regarded as having certain inalienable legal rights to live and flourish, independent of its utilitarian instrumental benefits for human use.

• Wisdom & Innovation.

• http://www.deepecology.org/mission.htm*
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology
• https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/learning-resources/what-is-deep-ecology*