Shallow e deep ecology

La filosofia e l'ambiente

Nell'ambito del pensiero ecologista, si riconoscono due filoni importanti e caratterizzati da un diverso approccio alle tematiche ambientali: shallow ecology e deep ecology.

Caratteristiche e differenze sono rappresentate nella tabella che segue:

Arne Naess è uno dei più importanti esponenti del deep ecology movement.

"I came easily because nature, especially small animals like crabs and shrimps made me feel much better than in my family life, so in order to avoid a difficult family life I went so to say, out to nature, I was in nature, I was together with plants and small animals, and found there that it was a universe of immense variety where I could be together with it, and feel that you were a fantastic being as a human being because I could see the beauty, I could see all the things, and then I thought that's just impossible that species on the earth, namely humans should really decrease the richness and diversity of life on earth".

"And the term richness is typical for the deep ecology order, that you will have abundance, not killing nearly every whale until they are threatened, but so that they are all over the Atlantic, so that a ship will have to change course, 'Oh there's a blue whale, Oh there's ... ' , to have abundance all around you, all creatures and humans. That's also some basic things of deep ecology".