Is deep ecology misanthropic?
I think humans and environment can live together without damaging each other. I mean we don’t have to choose between saving either nature or humans anymore. I am a fan of this conception http://planetaryproject.com/planet_project/philosophy/ , very inspiring.
Dave Foreman, founder of Earth First! which claims to draw inspiration from deep ecology, has made several deeply misanthropic comments. “It is rather painful to read about some of the positions taken by the Foreman faction in the E.F! Journal: for example, Foreman arguing that even a nuclear war would not be that damaging to the Earth and would hasten the end of industrial society… and his remarks elsewhere that we should “allow Ethiopians to starve”; Christopher Manes suggesting that one solution to overpopulation would be to dismantle the medical technology designed to save lives, and of AIDS as Nature’s solution to overpopulation; and Reed Noss writing of genetic “deep ecology elite” as a “chosen people” out to save the Earth (pp. 64, 68, 83-84, 92-3,101-3). George Sessions, Book Review: Martha Lee, Earth First!. Trumpeter: 13, 4 (1996) Sessions adds that if such comments claim to draw on deep ecology they show a misunderstanding of its philosophy. Murray Bookchin comments: “They
