Article
Towards an Ecocentric Movement?
The Ecological Citizen
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Subjects
- Conservation movements,
- Conservation of natural resources
Disciplines
Abstract
An ecocentric movement is one which mobilizes and organizes people to transform, or abolish and replace, existing anthropocentric societies, which seek to dominate the other-than-human world. The instrumentalities of anthropocentric domination will not simply wither away. They must be forcefully dismantled. That dismantling will be neither quick nor easy, and will be met with enormous resistance from those that benefit from domination, and from those that fear change. Only by keeping one’s eyes on the prize – the recovery of biodiversity and the Earth – and not being diverted by other goals, can the prize be attained.
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Citation Information
Johns D (2020) Towards an
ecocentric movement? The
Ecological Citizen 3: 127–34.
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