blog 9

Deep Ecology is, in my own opinion, the relationships that humans and all organisms have with the existence of others within ecosystems. They strive and depend on all living organisms whether it be a plan or an animal. Humans are causing the destruction of the environment which poses a threat to not only humans, but to all organisms. Everyone depends on the cooperation of each other.

The value that I agree with most and relates to all of our social lives is that the resources of the Earth are limited. When we think about resources, we tend to focus on coal, water, trees, and metals. But what we tend not to think about as a resource is life. Our food sources like fish are drastically declining, this RESOURCE is depleting and its because of human intervention. We demand the life styles we are use to yet are unwilling to make alterations to sustain such lifestyles. We are fishing the fish population dry, continuously draining the limited oil supplies, cutting down more forests then we can replace. Resources are limited and we must adapt to prevent depletion.

Now I don’t have a value that I really disagree with, just a statement. “More recently Christian Theologians and Biblical scholars, Father Robert Murray, Margaret Barker, Vincent Rossi, have begun to question the traditional Biblical interpretation that Man was granted dominion over all God's creatures, ie granted the absolute right to exploit, and that instead there was a Cosmic Covenant and that Man's role was to help maintain the cosmic order for all of God's Creation. An interpretation that would have been recognisable to St Ephrem the Syrian, St Dionysius the Areopagite, St Maximus the Confessor, Hildegard von Bingen and forms the world-view of vernacular man and chthonic societies. Organisations like ARC and REEP are attempting to reconnect mainstream religions with their environment.” The readings states that we need to rethink modern religions. We do not need to rethink them, just understand why humans do act in a certain way. It all relates to Machiavelli’s might make right. Humans are the dominant species and will take advantage of species while justifying the reasoning. We are not above the rest, we only believe that we are.