ABSTRACT
This term is used to describe an ideology challenging the existing social
order and providing a model of a more desirable future. It outlines how
this future might be achieved, and how change can be brought about. At
this ideology’s foundation is a view of nature that is non-hierarchical, such
that the world works as an interconnected whole. As such it stands in stark
contrast with most environmentalist perspectives that tend to be anthropo-
centric. Ecologism adopts an ecocentric standpoint that accords priority
to nature and the planet as a whole, with humans constituting one part
of it.