Deep Ecology, Part 13: A Deep Ecology Future

MP3 Download Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, Part 13: A Deep Ecology Future with George Sessions “We can keep nature at arm’s length if we just look at it as ‘scenery,’” says George Sessions, “but there’s something much deeper there.” Deep Ecology attempts to awaken us out of the superficial assumption that nature is for our pleasure and consumption, stressing the inherent value and rights of other species, and the responsibility of humans not to abuse our power for selfish ends. Sessions describes the influence of several great thinkers and activists on current efforts to preserve what is left of wildness in the world—and why this is crucial to our spiritual well-being and to human survival itself: “The old political categories of left, right, conservative, liberal are irrelevant when it comes to the kind of ecology that needs to be put into practice.” (hosted by Michael Toms) Bio George Sessions is chairman of the philosophy department at Sierra College in Rocklin, California. In