I'm sorry!!!! Helga - thank you for this information!
Jessica
At 12:27 AM 3/14/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello,
>I have been invited to New Brunswick to give a workshop on
>deep ecology to the Youth Action Group of the NB Environmental
>Network (March 19-21), and for the occasion, I made up the
>annotated bibliography below. I thought it might be of general
>interest to others. Anyone on this list can feel free to use it as
>they see fit and in whatever modified form may be appropriate to
>their personal circumstances.
>
>David Orton
>
> * * * * * * * * * * *
>
>SELECTED DEEP ECOLOGY AND OTHER READINGS
>
>A note: There are many different personal paths to deep
>ecology awareness. That is, different paths to a
>fundamental shift from human-centered to ecocentric
>consciousness, in the way we relate to the Earth and the
>natural world around us. Many of these paths have little to
>do with reading books. Deep ecology provides the
>philosophical base for the radical ecocentric Earth First
>environmental movement. Studying this philosophy of deep
>ecology, deepens activist awareness. On my own personal
>journey, the following books have been important. They are
>listed below for those who want some readings in deep
>ecology. There are other deep ecology and related books,
>(for example women authors like Delores Lachapelle and
>Robyn Eckersley) but this list may get you started on
>your own journey.
>- David Orton
>
>
>Arne Naess, "The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology
>Movement. A Summary", _Inquiry_ 16 (1973) 95-100. This is the
>original, now famous article by Arne Naess, the Norwegian
>philosopher and founder of the deep ecology movement, which
>first made the now familiar distinctions between "shallow"
>and "deep" ecology. This article, although of historical
>interest, has been superseded by the eight-point _Deep
>Ecology Platform_ worked out by Naess and the U.S. deep
>ecologist George Sessions in 1984. It is this widely
>accepted eight-point Platform, which now serves as a common
>basis of unity and guide to action within the deep ecology
>movement.
>
>Arne Naess, _Ecology, community and lifestyle_, 1989,
>Cambridge University Press. Reading this book is the best
>single introduction to the depth, complexity (and obscurity)
>of the deep ecology of Arne Naess.
>
>George Sessions, editor, _Deep Ecology For The 21st Century:
>Readings On The Philosophy And Practice Of The New
>Environmentalism_, 1995, Shambhala Publications. Sessions
>has played an important role in introducing and popularizing
>deep ecology in North America. This book is divided into six
>sections, with excellent introductions by Sessions to each
>of the sections, which themselves contain essays by
>representative thinkers within or having influence on the
>deep ecology movement.
>
>Andrew McLaughlin, _Regarding Nature: Industrialism,
>Environmentalism, and Deep Ecology_, 1993, State University
>of New York Press. A very important book, which combines a
>deep ecology, bioregional and social justice perspective,
>in its clarifying analysis of the roots and destructiveness
>of industrial society. This book in many ways has provided
>support for the theoretical tendency within deep ecology
>known as "left biocentrism". McLaughlin has also written on
>what he calls the "heart of deep ecology", the unifying
>eight-point Deep Ecology Platform.
>
>Richard Sylvan and David Bennett, _The Greening of Ethics:
>>From Human Chauvinism to Deep-Green Theory_, 1994, The White
>Horse Press. Sylvan, an Australian forest activist and
>academic philosopher who died in 1996, was the "bad boy"
>of the deep ecology movement and also a personal friend.
>Sylvan was the sophisticated critic of intellectual
>fuzziness of writings within the deep ecology movement. He
>outlined these views in the 1985 _A Critique Of Deep
>Ecology_, published by The Australian National University.
>The same Critique was published in two parts, in the
>journal _Radical Philosophy_ 1986, 40 and 41: 2-12 and
>1-22. Sylvan, with his "deep green" theory has been an
>important influence on left biocentrism.
>
>Rudolf Bahro, was a German green philosopher and activist
>who died of cancer in 1997. His influence is enormous,
>particularly from a European perspective. He explored with a
>ruthless honesty the real contradictions for a left wing
>person of moving to a deep ecological consciousness. He saw
>the necessity for a personal and societal spiritual change
>if Earth destruction was to end. Industrialized countries
>like Germany, the United States and Canada, needed to reduce
>their impact upon the Earth to one-tenth of what it was. For
>Bahro, "The earth can belong to no one" and "The ecological
>crisis will bring about the end of capitalism." There are
>five books available in English. Start with _From Red to
>Green_, 1984 and then move on to his difficult but inspiring
>final work, _Avoiding Social and Ecological Disaster: The
>Politics of World Transformation_, subtitled "An Inquiry into
>the Foundations of Spiritual and Ecological Politics", 1994,
>Gateway Books, Bath, England. Bahro, in a Dec. 1995 letter,
>declared his agreement "with the essential points" of left
>biocentrism.
>
>John Livingston, _The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation_,
>1981, McClelland and Stewart Limited; and _Rogue Primate:
>An exploration of human domestication_, 1994, Key Porter
>Books. A powerful Canadian eco-philosopher and naturalist
>who David Suzuki has described as his mentor. For
>Livingston, wildlife has to be valued and defended for its
>own sake. Giving rational arguments for wildlife
>preservation is to accept the logic of industrial society.
>In the latest book, Livingston says that humans are the only
>animal that have entered domestication on their own.
>So-called resource conservation, "is a wholly proprietary,
>human-chauvinist concept."
>
>Saral Sarkar, _Eco-Socialism or Eco-Capitalism? A Critical
>Analysis of Humanity's Fundamental Choices_, 1999, Zed Books,
>London, England. While not a deep ecology perspective, this
>is an important book for those concerned about whether or
>not it is possible to fuse the radical ecology and the
>socialist movements. Sarkar believes it is possible,
>providing socialism is prepared to redefine itself and learn
>"the ecological lesson" from the radical ecology movement.
>This book gives an ecological critique of all forms of
>socialism, a critique of green politics and an insightful
>examination of traditional cultures and what can be learnt
>from them. Sarkar was born in India and has lived in Germany
>for many years. He is the author of the historical work,
>_Green-Alternative Politics in West Germany_ (2 vols), 1993
>and 1994, United Nations University Press.
>
>
>OTHER IMPORTANT BOOKS
>
>Clive Ponting, _A Green History Of The World: The
>Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations_, 1991,
>Sinclair-Stevenson Limited, England. It looks at world
>history, e.g. what happened to Easter Island, from an
>environmental perspective. A fundamental book to give a sense
>of ecological and historical place. However, this book will
>not come out and condemn industrial civilization and speak of
>an alternative.
>
>Aldo Leopold, _A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on
>Conservation from Round River_, first published in 1949,
>Sierra Club/Ballantine Book. Leopold illustrates in his life
>and writings, the transition from U.S. forester and game
>manager to environmental philosopher. His thinking, writings,
>and metaphors e.g. the Land Ethic, "thinking like a mountain",
>"round river rendezvous", "green fire", have become part of
>the consciousness of radical environmentalism in North
>America. Leopold's environmental ethics has become
>influential: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the
>integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It
>is wrong when it tends otherwise."
>
>Calvin Luther Martin, _Keepers Of The Game: Indian-Animal
>Relationships and the Fur Trade_, 1978, University of
>California Press; and _In the Spirit of the Earth:
>Rethinking History and Time_, 1992, The Johns Hopkins
>University Press. These two important books aid in
>realistically understanding aboriginal land ethics, past
>and present. They also give insight, I believe, into
>understanding a potential relationship between an indigenous
>animism and deep ecology.
>
>Olive Patricia Dickason, _Canada's First Nations: A History
>of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times_, 1992, McClelland
>& Stewart Inc. This is a progressive and detailed source of
>information from Metis historian Dickason, on the aboriginal
>peoples living in Canada.
>
>Bill Devall, editor, _Clearcut: The Tragedy Of Industrial
>Forestry_, 1993, Sierra Club Books/Earth Island Press. The
>book for ecocentric forestry activists. It shows the totally
>destructive ecological impact of capitalist industrial
>forestry in Canada and the United States, that is
>clearcutting. It has illustrations from each province in
>Canada and each state in the U.S. This book also has
>examples of an alternative forestry, influenced by deep
>ecology and a wholistic ecological world view.
>
>Edward Abbey, _The Monkey Wrench Gang_, 1975. A
>politically incorrect novel about monkey wrenching in the
>U.S. South West desert country, by four people who band
>together in the tradition of the Luddites. This novel has
>inspired many to activism. As Abbey says in this book
>through the character Doc Sarvis: "Let our practice form our
>doctrine, thus assuring precise theoretical coherence."
>
>_Earth First! Journal_ It is published 8 times a year. This
>is the activists' newspaper in the U.S. and Canada for the
>"no-compromise environmental movement". Every ecocentric
>radical activist in Canada and the States should read this
>on a regular basis. Address: POB 1415, Eugene, Oregon 97440,
>U.S.A. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>LEFT BIOCENTRISM
>
>This is a left focus or theoretical tendency within the deep
>ecology movement. There is a ten-point _Left Biocentrism
>Primer_ which presents a summary of the position. There is
>also an internet discussion group called "left bio" which
>supports the Primer and whose members take part in
>theoretical and practical discussions.
>
>For a consideration of some ideas important to left
>biocentrism, see in particular the following two Green Web
>Bulletins:
>
>#63 "My Path to Left Biocentrism: Part I - The Theory," by
>D. Orton, April 1998. This Bulletin is a theoretical
>introduction to the left biocentric tendency within the deep
>ecology movement. Part I includes the important thinkers for
>a left biocentric synthesis, and discusses the continuities
>and discontinuities of left biocentrism with deep ecology.
>It also includes the ten- point "Left Biocentrism Primer."
>
>#64 "My Path to Left Biocentrism: Part II - Actual Issues,"
>by D. Orton, April 1998. This Bulletin shows the application
>of left biocentrism to actual issues: forests and forestry,
>aboriginal issues, relationship to the Left, green movement
>and party, protected areas and wildlife, and sustainable
>development. This Bulletin shows, in the context of the
>listed issues, what is distinctive about left biocentrism
>compared to deep ecology.
>
>For more information about Left Biocentrism or anything in
>this bibliography, contact the Green Web:
>R.R.#3, Saltsprings, Nova Scotia, Canada, BOK 1PO
>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Home Page: http://fox.nstn.ca/~greenweb/gw-hp.htm
>
>March, 1999
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