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• The pejorative term is radical environmentalist.
  
  This is the new term created by environmentalists to distinguish those who believe human ingenuity can solve this problem (light greens) and those who believe only a fundamental shift in the very way we conceive of ourselves will solve it; and that anything less will fail and is unacceptable because 1) it delays the inevitable and 2) every bit of ecosystem lost is for all practical purposes irrecoverable.
  
  Deep Greens think like this:
  
  We have met the enemy and he is us.
  
  The sheer scale of our mass delusion is staggering.
  
  When the environment gets used up we shall be awakened from this dream and the folly will come to an end very quickly.
  
  It%26#039;s about facing the truth.
  
  Note the principles (quoted)
  
  1. The well-being and flourishing of human and nonhuman life on Earth have value in themselves (synonyms: intrinsic value, inherent value). These values are independent of the usefulness of the nonhuman world for human purposes.
  
  2. Richness and diversity of life forms contribute to the realization of these values and are also values in themselves.
  
  3. Humans have no right to reduce this richness and diversity except to satisfy vital human needs.
  
  4. The flourishing of human life and cultures is compatible with a substantial decrease of the human population. The flourishing of nonhuman life requires such a decrease.
  
  5. Present human interference with the nonhuman world is excessive, and the situation is rapidly worsening.
  
  6. Policies must therefore be changed. These policies affect basic economic, technological, and ideological structures. The resulting state of affairs will be deeply different from the present.
  
  7. The ideological change is mainly that of appreciating life quality (dwelling in situations of inherent value) rather than adhering to an increasingly higher standard of living. There will be a profound awareness of the difference between big and great.
  
  8. Those who subscribe to the foregoing points have an obligation directly or indirectly to try to implement the necessary changes.
  
  
  
  A simple but good explanation given here in a similar question I asked 6 months ago.
  
  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
  
  Edit: Little Robber Girl Nice Answer. Joanna Macy is a Deep Ecologist.
  
  deep ecology links;
  http://www.greatturningtimes.org/links.a...
  
  
  edit; byde - lol! %26#039;good deep fiends%26#039; that%26#039;s me alright ;-)
  Belladonnadeadlynightshade or Permaculturebella is very deep
  So is Bohemian
  
  Hash cookies Bushy
  Hash cookies
  don`t know about sam but the rest above are good deep fiends
  
  Up the deep

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  Deep Greens are the elves that make cookies... Due to global warming they have moved out of their trees and dug DEEP into the underworld....

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  inflation will force consumers to conserve energy