Ecology and Deep Ecology
On how Naess distinguished shallow ecology from deep ecology, and why recognizing intrinsic value in nature fundamentally changes what we owe the non-human world
Ecology and Deep Ecology
On how Thomas Berry's "new cosmology" diagnoses ecological crisis not as behavioral but as cosmological, requiring a sacred story where the universe itself is subject rather than resource
Ecology and Deep Ecology
On how Earth's atmosphere reveals itself as a living system, and why Lovelock and Margulis's vision of planetary self-regulation matters beyond the science
Ecology and Deep Ecology
On how alphabetic literacy redirected human animistic perception from the living world to the page, severing our sensory reciprocity with the more-than-human earth
Ecology and Deep Ecology
On how the removal of formative encounters with wildness has arrested human psychological development, leaving modern adults functioning at adolescent levels of maturity with profound consequences for both psyche and ecology
Ecology and Deep Ecology
On how ecological grief becomes doorway rather than dead-end, the initiatory spiral that transforms despair into active participation, and why feeling the full weight of crisis is necessary for genuine transformation
Ecology and Deep Ecology
On mycorrhizal intelligence, the cooperative forest, and what peer-reviewed mycology confirms about the nature of mind