Re: [DE] Eric's version of DE Platform

**  Eric, can you get these together somehow? I think your Platform is
clearly better than the old one, except that it doesn't have the positive
spin, the hint of joyfulness and energy of the first. The ideas of vitality
and invigoration may be what is missing.
**  For me, that's unnecessary and perhaps misleading, but I realise there
is a necessity for Deep Ecology to be attractive to the rootless, the
searchers for a better way of living. So there has to be a political
dimension to such a platform.

At 07:58 2/09/99 -0700, Eric <emstorm@metro.net> wrote:
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>      Interpretation of The Deep Ecology Platform (9/2/99)
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> 1. Every system and every individual member of the Earth is
>  important whether or not it seems useful to humans.
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> 2. In order for the life and systems of the Earth to flourish,
> complex interrelationships and diversity are necessary.
> Therefore, this richness and diversity are also important.
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> 3. Humans have no right to reduce this richness and diversity.
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> 4. Present human interaction with the nonhuman world is
> largely destructive, and the situation is rapidly worsening.
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> 5. The flourishing of human life and cultures is compatible
> with a drastic decrease in human population, consumption
> and pollution. The flourishing of almost all else requires such
> a decrease.
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> 6. An ideological change is therefore necessary.  We must
> recognize that we are a single member of a vastly complex
> system, not its ruler.  Therefore, we must also recognize
> that, as all other members, we may take what we need
> but may not prohibit other members of our ecosystems
> from taking what they need. 
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> 7. Those who subscribe to the foregoing points have an
> obligation to attempt to implement the necessary changes.
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>Sustainable is one side of a continuum, unsustainable the other.  They are
>divided by a point in the middle.  At the extremes are devastation and
>invigoration.  Sustainable means that the system in question will continue
>to function at a level of vitality relative to the degree of benefit or
>destruction and disruption caused by one's actions.  Unsustainable means
>that the destruction and disruption of one's actions will not allow the
>system to continue; the system will progressively degrade, at a speed
>relative to the level of destruction and disruption of one's actions, and
>at some time cease to function.
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