Loan Principle Definition
Deep ecology is a broad field and not all of its varieties can be captured in a single definition. However, in his 2001 essay titled "Faith, God, and Nature," Eric Katz simply defines deep ecology as a method of analyzing the human relationship with the world and environmental crisis. Arne Naess, the Norwegian philosopher who coined the term, defines deep ecology through seven basic principles.
Rejecting Anthropocentric Thought – Separation from Conservationist and Technocentrist Thought
Naess' first principle argued that individuals should rejection the human-in-environment image in favor of the relational total-field image. The most predominant school of environmental thought has leaned towards the man-centered world of conservationist tendencies. (For more information on conservationism and other types of environmentalism, see Early Environmental Curriculum.)