Deep ecology’s rejection of ethics proves unstable and inconsistent

Evidence

The abandonment of ethics and its reduction to psychology is also part of the positivist programme. But deep ecology’s approach to ethics is, like much else, doubtfully consistent, variable and shifting. In more recent work the emphasis seems to have quietly shifted back again to a broad and vague ethical format which places the centre once again in ethics and the injunction to form a maximally expanded Self. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 786

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Deep ecology’s core notion of identification is apolitical and individualist. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 91