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SAGE Knowledge. Have you created a personal profile? Login or create a profile so that you can create alerts and save clips, playlists, and searches. Please log in from an authenticated institution or log into your member profile to access the email feature. Fred H. Besthorn, associate professor of social work at Wichita State University, has written widely on the subject of deep ecology, which takes us into the spiritual realm with a deep appreciation for nature and for nonhuman and human life.
In his contribution for this book, Besthorn constructs a model of environmental restoration as a form of environmental justice. Because we depend on nature, as the author suggests, we must work toward restoring a harmonious balance between our lifestyles and our natural resources. You don't have to be familiar with all the philosophical terms used in this contribution to appreciate the essence of its argument. CQ Press Your definitive resource for politics, policy and people.
How can we measure innocence? The relevance of this discussion is to reinforce the argument that anthropocentrism is not just about elites , it is about an ideology that privileges any and all humans above the rest of nature. This discussion is also significant in relation to people who live outside the industrial market system, and who do not degrade their habitats.
Yet every collectivity such as nation states even if relatively poor should be held responsible. We accept that in some states, some people have greater responsibilities.
Besides, even if ideally humanity can be at peace with itself and harmonious which as Hayward himself notes, it is not , this does not mean that it will be collectively biophilic—some people will be, some not Taylor ; Kopnina While some cultures respect holy cows or worship trees Sponsel , other communities can be cruel to animals and indifferent to this-worldly environmental concerns Taylor , ; Taylor et al. This is not to imply that killing animals especially for food is wrong. Abram, S. Anthropological Forum, 26 1 , 74— CrossRef Google Scholar.
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