Social ecology

Social Ecology is a coherent radical critique of current social, political, and anti-ecological trends. It claims to be a reconstructive, ecological, communitarian, and ethical approach to society. Social Ecology is a radical view of scientific ecology and of social/political systems, e.g. those within which Green Parties operate.

Social Ecologists believe that the current ecological crisis is the product of capitalism. They believe it is not the number of people, but the way people relate to one another that has fueled the current economic crisis. Over-consumption, productivism and consumerism are thus symptoms, not causes, of a deeper issue with ethical relationships.

see Murray Bookchin, social darwinism, Peter Kropotkin

contrast with Deep Ecology, Gaia philosophy, terrist, Gaian, Greens

External Links

• Institute for Social Ecology (ISE)
• About the ISE