Blog #9

Explain your view on deep ecology. How can you relate these views to your lifestyle? Do you most agree with or disagree with about the principles? What concerns do you have about Deep Ecology? 

I think that deep ecology is very complex and very interesting. I think that it makes some valid points that I completely agree with. However, I do not think I will ever be able to fully grasp or understand it in its entirety. 

 I think that shallow ecology is a much easier concept to fit into a lifestyle. Deep ecology is a changing of your whole outlook on life and the way you live. I think that to fully embrace deep ecology would be nearly impossible to do in this day and age. I think on a basic level, eliminating as much waste from your life is possible is the first place to start when applying deep ecology in your life. I think that in my lifestyle I have huge of respect for nature but after reading these articles I realize that there is so much more to respecting nature than I thought. Everything on this world is interconnected and has a life of its own and has the right to live and prosper, just like humans. It's hard to grasp that no life form is better than humans, we are all on the same playing field. A blade of grass has just the same rights that I have. 

I think that these principles make a ton of sense and I agree with them, but in some ways I doubt them. I think that being a human makes it hard to see the world in the eyes of something else. I also think that if you can accomplish this you would understand and follow deep ecology much better. 

I think that deep ecology is sooo far in left field, getting other people to follow it or even agree with it would be very difficult. Especially when a lot of people think that the world can sustain us forever and that the world is here to serve us. I think that getting people to think that an ant is the same as a human would be very difficult because humans have been projected as the dominated race "ruling" the world.