I haven’t read much deep ecology, but I model them as strict anti-interventionists rather than nature maximisers (or satisficers): isn’t it that they value whatever ‘the course of things without us’ would be?
(They certainly don’t mind particular deaths, or particular species extinctions.)
But even if I’m right about that, you’re surely right that some would bite the bullet when universal extinction was threatened. Do you know any people who accept that maintaining a ‘garden world’ is implied by valuing nature in itself?
I haven’t read much deep ecology either. Seth Baum has written that some people think there is intrinsic value in functioning ecosystems—presumably these people would want the ecosystems to continue as a garden world. Other people value biodiversity (number of species). But you’re right that some just want whatever would have happened naturally.
I haven’t read much deep ecology, but I model them as strict anti-interventionists rather than nature maximisers (or satisficers): isn’t it that they value whatever ‘the course of things without us’ would be?
(They certainly don’t mind particular deaths, or particular species extinctions.)
But even if I’m right about that, you’re surely right that some would bite the bullet when universal extinction was threatened. Do you know any people who accept that maintaining a ‘garden world’ is implied by valuing nature in itself?
I haven’t read much deep ecology either. Seth Baum has written that some people think there is intrinsic value in functioning ecosystems—presumably these people would want the ecosystems to continue as a garden world. Other people value biodiversity (number of species). But you’re right that some just want whatever would have happened naturally.