Deep ecology is misanthropic and hostile to the environmentalism of the poor.

Evidence

We should distinguish categorically between an attentiveness to deep time environmental changes and the hokiness of deep ecology, a movement permeated by misanthropy and at best indifferent, at worst hostile, to the environmentalism of the poor. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 903

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the eco-justice distinction between wilderness/deep ecology and the environmentalism of the poor that threads through the entire book (ch52-53, 56). — connects to: Environmental education can alienate resource-dependent rural communities when it condemns local livelihoods. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 68; Western environmentalism’s nonhuman focus relegates the global poor to moral depravity — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 482; Environmental movements’ focus on the nonhuman can marginalize the global poor

Broader Connections

• Western environmentalism’s nonhuman focus relegates the global poor to moral depravity #corroborates (0.85) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 482
• Environmental movements’ focus on the nonhuman can marginalize the global poor #corroborates (0.82)